Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 12/22/22 3:26 AM, GrimMaple wrote:

> This thing right here 
> https://dlang.org/spec/hash-map.html#static_initialization has been "Not 
> YET implemented" for as long as I work with D (that's more than 3 
> years), and it doesn't seem to be bothering anyone. But yes, 
> implementing a compiler inside a compiler is much more important, when 
> the original compiler doesn't even work properly.

I have a (clunky) library solution:

https://github.com/schveiguy/newaa

You can build one of those at compile-time, and use it at runtime, and 
it can be explicitly converted to/from builtin AA (without any copying), 
because it's binary compatible.

e.g.

```d
import std.stdio;
import schlib.newaa;

Hash!(string, int) aa = ["hello": 1, "world": 2];

void foo(int[string] x)
{
     x["blah"] = 5;
}

void main()
{
     foo(aa.asAA);
     writeln(aa["blah"]); // 5
}
```

-Steve