Associative Array, get value instead of poiter using `if (auto ..)`, possible?

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 31 August 2024 at 22:06:26 UTC, kdevel wrote:
> Is that functionally different from
>
> ```
> void main()
> {
>     import std.stdio;
>
>     int[string] test = ["hello": 42];
>
>     if (auto p = "hello" in test)
>     {
>         writeln("hello => ", *p);
>     }
> }
> ```

It's essentially the same. I only suggested it because the 
original question was about alternatives to pointers, and 
`Nullable` isn't a pointer.

I suppose it goes to show that avoiding language features just 
for the sake of it ("no pointers", "no templates", "no imports", 
...) is unlikely to accomplish anything useful. :)