Bug in usage of associative array: dynamic array with string as a key

[Cecil Ward]

On Friday, 30 June 2023 at 20:12:08 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 6/30/23 12:05, Cecil Ward wrote:
> > I have code roughly like the following:
> >
> >     dstring str = "name"d;
>
> Aside: One almost never needs dstring.
>
> >     uint ordinal =  (( str in Decls.ordinals ) !is null)  ?
> > Decls.ordinals[ str ]  :  -1;
> >
> > struct Decls
> >     {
> >     uint[ dstring]   ordinals;
>
> Do you mean 'ordinals' is 'static'? Otherwise, Decls.ordinals 
> does not compile.
>
> >     }
> >
> > //and
> >     Decls.ordinals[ str ] = ordinal_counter++;
>
> Are you doing that *after* you initialize 'ordinal' as you show 
> here? :)
>
> Ali

Hi Ali, ‘ordinal’ is a static initialised explicitly with zero.