Can structs be used with associative arrays?

[Tim Locke]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:41:43 -0500, Chris Nicholson-Sauls
<ibisbasenji at gmail.com> wrote:

>Tim Locke wrote:
>> 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 ')'".
>
>The {a:1, b:2} format is the struct static initializer syntax, used with static and const 
>declerations only, sadly.  Hopefully in the future it becomes more general purpose 
>(related issues to array literals).  While it isn't perfect, you can do this, which at 
>least reduces the number of array lookups to one:
>
># with (x["a"]) { a = 1; b= 2; }
>
>In fact, I guess you could technically even do:
>
># with (x["a"]) a = 1, b = 2;
># with (x["b"] = A.init) a = 1, b = 2;
>
>So long as with() doesn't require braces after it.  (I think it does, mostly because 
>nobody ever thought of a case where you wouldn't need them... suppose I just did.)

Thanks for the help. I didn't expect so many options.
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