TIL: statically initializing an Associative Array

[Andy Valencia]

On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 at 01:14:24 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 at 00:10:27 UTC, Andy Valencia wrote:
>> I had a set of default error messages to go with error code 
>> numbers, and did something along the lines of:
>>
>> string[uint] error_text = [
>>     400: "A message",
>>     401: "A different message"
>> ];
>>
>> and got "expression .... is not a constant"
> ...
> This was fixed [in 
> 2.106.0](https://dlang.org/changelog/2.106.0.html#dmd.static-assoc-array)
>
>  please upgrade your compiler.

I'm using ldc2 from Debian stable; great news that it's fixed as 
of late 2023.  I'll probably live with my workaround, but it's 
good to know that it's a bug which has been resolved.

Thank you!
Andy