AA char[] as key

[Andrew Wiley]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, simendsjo <simendsjo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> seems T[char[]] is rewritten as T[const(char)[]], and does not accept char[]
>> as key even if mutable data should automatically convert to const (right..?)
>>
>> Shouldn't T[char[]] be disallowed, and have to be written as
>> T[immutable(char)[]] instead of a silent rewrite?
>>
>>
>>    alias long[char[]] AA;
>>    // key automatically changed to const(char)[]
>>    static assert(is(AA == long[const(char)[]]));
>>    AA aa;
>>    aa["a"] = 10;
>>    // error - have to use immutable keys
>>    aa["b".dup] = 11;
>
> By design, the problem is things like this:
>
> char[] key = "somekey";

Sorry, should be:
char[] key = "somekey".dup;