AA and struct with const member
Stanislav Blinov
stanislav.blinov at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 01:11:13 UTC 2021
On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 at 22:46:16 UTC, frame wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 at 10:02:13 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
>
>> // Should be a compile-time error, because it might reassign:
>> test[key] = S(value);
>
> This might be a typo in your example but why should it be a
> compile-time error, it cannot know if the key already exists in
> compile time on a variable. First time initialization should
> always work anyway.
Because opIndexAssign cannot distinguish at compile time between
initialization and assignment:
```d
Stuff[Key] aa;
aa[key] = Stuff(args); // ostensibly, initialization
aa[key] = otherStuff; // assignment to existing value
```
Same syntax, different behavior. This can only be caught at
runtime. `require` and `update` though should be able to pull
this off, and that they don't is a bug.
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