Cannot initialize associative array.

[Ali Çehreli]

Ali Çehreli wrote:
> dcoder wrote:
> 
>  > So, I moved the initialization to inside the main function, and now 
> it works.
>  > Great.  I think we need to put this question in the FAQ.
> 
> For future reference, if it really needs to be global:
> 
> uint[string] mywords;
> 
> static this()
> {
>     mywords = [ "Hello" : 1, "World" : 1, "Cat" : 1, "Dog" : 1 ];
> }

Could someone please verify whether the above is really necessary? Is it 
actually a dmd bug that we need to use 'static this()' to initialize an 
associative array?

Ali