Better AAs

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 11 July 2014 at 02:32:33 UTC, Tom Compton wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 July 2014 at 22:53:56 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>
>> Rust has not done the significant D design mistake of putting 
>> the associative arrays inside the language/runtime, but D AAs 
>> are getting better.
>
> Can someone explain why having AA's builtin to the language is 
> such a bad thing. I would have thought that it is a good thing 
> because of greater efficiency.

There are 3 thing that you don't want to know how they are done: 
sausages, law and D's AA.