delete hash[key] deprecated???

[Stewart Gordon]

"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:fopjrt$1b2c$1 at digitalmars.com...
<snip>
>> If not, do I have to do:
>> auto c = hash["x"];
>> hash.remove["x"];
>> delete c;
>
> Yeah, you do.


No I don't.

    delete * cast(Object*) &hash["x"];

Test code:
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import std.stdio;

class Test {
    ~this() { writefln("Object destroyed"); }
}

void main() {
    Test[int] aa;

    aa[42] = new Test;
    delete * cast(Object*) &aa[42];
    writefln(42 in aa);
}
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The last statement is as much to show that it is actually deleted there and 
then as to show that it suppresses removal of the AA key.

Stewart.

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