Does associative array change the location of values?

Stanislav Blinov stanislav.blinov at gmail.com
Sat Oct 30 18:22:03 UTC 2021


On Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 17:45:57 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:

> You said "deallocating unreferenced elements". I thought you 
> meant elements unreferenced by the AA.

Yup, I misunderstood you :)

> What I mean is, the AA isn't going to change implementations 
> where it now deallocates values that may still have existing 
> references. If that's the case, we can state that in the docs.
>
> e.g.:
>
> Removing a key does not deallocate the value that was removed. 
> The value's lifetime is managed by the GC and will be alive 
> until there are no references to that value.

:whateveritistodoathumbsuphere:


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