Associative Array Initalizers - Possible Syntax?

[Kirk McDonald]

Xinok wrote:
> Nicolai Waniek Wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't like each version you provided. The most readable and D-ish (in
>>comparison to static initialization) would be something like this example:
>>
>>char[][][char[]] languageTokens =
>>    [
>>      "comments" : ["\\*", "*\\", "//", "\\+", "+\\],
>>      "type"     : ["bool", "int", "double", "float"]
>>    ];
>>
>>and so on.
> 
> 
> The one problem with that example is expressions which would make use of conditionals. Technically, it could work because conditionals have a fixed number of arguments, but it would be hard to read if both sides used conditionals.
> 
> int[int] arr = [a > b ? a : b : c > d ? c : d];
> 
> You could argue that you could use parenthesis. Well, then it just essentially becomes my syntax, except using parenthesis instead of square brackets [].
> 
> int[int] arr = [(a > b ? a : b) : c > d ? c : d];
> Compare against:
> int[int] arr = [[a > b ? a : b] = c > d ? c : d];

I do not find this a compelling reason to require brackets or 
parentheses in all cases. I do like Nicolai's suggestion, though. (It's 
very much like Python's syntax, and I believe has been suggested before.)

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