adding properties/methods to AA's?

[Oskar Linde]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Oskar Linde wrote:
>> just write the function as ubyte[] serialize(Variant[char[]] input) 
>> and call it as:
>>
>> map.serialize(); // Note, the trailing pair of empty parentheses
> 
> Hey you're right!  I forgot that AA's work that way too.  I had this 
> little test function in my tests directory that didn't work at some 
> point but now apparently it does:
> 
> V get(V,K)(V[K] dict, K key, V def = V.init)
> {
>     V* ptr = key in dict;
>     return ptr? *ptr: def;
> }
> 
> 
> void main()
> {
>     char[][int] i2s;
>     i2s[1] = "Hello";
>     i2s[5] = "There";
> 
>     writefln( i2s.get(1, "yeh") );
>     writefln( i2s.get(2, "default") );
>     writefln( i2s.get(1) );
> }
> 
> Boffo!

It has worked since DMD 0.178. Walter even refers to your post with this 
same example in the changelog. :) (The reason the above didn't work 
earlier was issues with IFTI and converting char[n] -> char[])


-- 
Oskar