Associative arrays give compile error

[Denis Koroskin]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:57:22 +0400, Bob Cowdery <bob at bobcowdery.plus.com>  
wrote:

>  On 05/10/2010 11:45, Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:23:47 +0400, Bob Cowdery
>> <bob at bobcowdery.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  I can't seem to get any sense out of associative arrays. Even the
>>> simplest definition won't compile so I must be doing something daft.
>>>
>>> int[string] aa = ["hello":42];
>>>
>>> Error: non-constant expression ["hello":42]
>>>
>>> What exactly is not constant about this. The example is straight out  
>>> the
>>> book. Using D 2.0.
>>>
>>> bob
>>
>> What exactly compiler version are you using (run dmd with no args)?
>> Works perfectly fine here (dmd2.049).
>
> It says 2.049. How odd. I've got a fair amount of code and everything
> else compiles fine.

Can you please post complete code snippet that fails to compile?

Here is the code I used to test:

module aa;

import std.stdio;

void main()
{
	int[string] aa = ["hello":42];
	writeln(aa["hello"]);
}

# dmd -run aa.d