[dmd-internals] AssociativeArray in druntime should go before the next release

[Brad Roberts]

For the next release, which we should be doing pretty soon, I think, I'd 
rather not do either.  For the next release, if it's reasonable to truely 
finish the conversion w/in one release cycle, I'd prefer to finish it.

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Daniel Murphy wrote:

> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 03:23:36 +1100
> From: Daniel Murphy <yebblies at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Discuss the internals of DMD <dmd-internals at puremagic.com>
> To: Discuss the internals of DMD <dmd-internals at puremagic.com>
> Subject: Re: [dmd-internals] AssociativeArray in druntime should go before the
>      next release
> 
> The former now, then the latter after the release.
> 
> It's not just a matter of moving the code into object.d (object.di
> actually, we need a way too fix the duplication as well)  For the
> transition to really work, the way AAs are handled in the frontend
> needs to be redone so that the glue layer, the backend, and the
> interpreter can completely forget they exist.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> > Meaning return to before there was an AA type in object.d or complete the transition to just the object.d version (which
> > would include moving the code hidden off in the runtime into either object.d or a file imported publically by object.d)?
> >
> > I'd prefer the latter.
> >
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