Nested associative arrays

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On 14/11/2010 00:28, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
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> On 11/13/2010 02:02 PM, spir wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:27:08 +0000
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>> But the compiler (D2) accepts nested aa literals remaining anonymous:
>> writeln(["a" : ["b" : "c"]]); // --> "a:b:c"
>> (where "auto aa = ..." fails)
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> The difference is initializer vs expression.
> initializers occur on the rhs of a decl/assignment, and they are not
> parsed the same as expressions (e.g. you can have 'void' and struct
> literals as initializers -
>
> int i = void;
> X x = {a: {b: 1}, c: "hi"};
>
> - you can't have these in expressions).

OIC, ty.

> Initializers are also stored and treated differently in the compiler,
> which results in this and other inconsistencies

Yeah I know. :( I've been working on implementing some missing CTFE 
functionality so that one day I might actually get to upgrade from 
2.028, and having dealing with initializers vs expressions is a real pita.

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