Proof of concept - library AA

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 23 September 2016 at 07:39:01 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 14:13:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Would be interesting to get some opinions on this.
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1282
>
> Bringing up this topic again b/c there was still almost no 
> feedback on the actual plan. Here is a summary.
>
> - built-in AA is too magic to be replaced by library AA
> - provide a general purpose library AA with enough benefits for 
> people to live with incompatibilities
> - add a cheap toBuiltinAA adapter for compatibility of the 
> library AA with existing code
> - make array and AA literals usable with UDTs
> - slowly deprecated magic behavior of the built-in AA
> - switch built-in AA to library AA
>
> Also we should plan for a std.container.aa to deal w/ all the 
> fancy generic/specialized stuff.

LGTM