Associative Arrays in the data segment

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 07:54:44 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> It only works with integral types of at most 32-bits at the 
> moment, but most built-in types are fairly easy to support.  
> The downside is requires re-implementing druntime's AA and 
> hashing algorithms in the compiler, and keeping them in sync 
> when either changes.

It might make sense as an intermediate step. After all it's 
fairly simple and who knows how long we'll take to change the AA 
implementation.
But what I find unacceptable is a lousy intermediate solution 
that supports int, but not short and only if the value isn't a 
const string or a class starting with the letter K.
I don't want to add another facet to the already long AA story.
So if you can fix the problem and are willing to do the work, go 
on. Just adding a tiny hack makes the situation worse IMO.