Associative Arrays in the data segment

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message 
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> Sadly I'm among the folks who aren't jazzed by this. It seems like an 
> evolutionary backward step of only short-lived value. It's telling that 
> some of the supporting arguments count on bad things not improving.

If I'd been saying this three years ago I would have been right.  We should 
move towards something better, instead of sitting still and waiting for 
perfect.