Can structs be used with associative arrays?

[Tim Locke]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:46:26 -0400, "Ben Hinkle"
<ben.hinkle at gmail.com> wrote:

>> int main()
>> {
>>    A[char[]] x;
>>    x["a"] = *(new A); // Create an instance of the struct.
>>    x["a"].a = 1;
>>    return( 0 );
>> }
>
>Note the *(new A) will allocate a new A and then copy the contents to x["a"] 
>and then throw away the allocated memory. So a way of doing the same thing 
>without allocating extra memory is to
> x["a"] = A.init; 

What is the concise method of initializing the members of my array of
structs? It seems long-handed to do this:

x["a"].a = 1;
x["a"].b = 2;
etc.

Can this be shortened? According to spec_DMD_0.109.pdf, pages 100-101,
I *think* I should be able to do something like this:

x["a"] = {a:1, b:2};

But the compiler gives me the following error: "expression expected,
not '{'". I also tried replacing {} with () and got "found ':' when
expecting ')'".

Thank you.
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