Rectangular or 2d associative arrays

[Bill Baxter]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Falk Henrich wrote:
>> David Freitas wrote:
>>
>>>          int[char] x;         // Visually: = ['a':1, 'b':2] // 
>>> associative
>>>          array x['b'] = 123;
>>>          writefln(x);  // this prints out: [b:2063597568]
>>>          writefln(x['b']); // this prints out: 123
>>>
>>> This just doesn't seem intuitive to me? Why is there a "garbage" value
>>> being printed out?
>>
>> What would you expect D to print out? How can the language know how to
>> interpet arrays of some type? Hard coding some special output format for
>> all types of arrays into the language is not a wise idea.
> 
> Writef(ln) and other functions that do formatting use the TypeInfo 
> provided by their varargs to construct readable representations of their 
> parameters. This case just seems to be buggy.

Probably related to bug 1000:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1000