Associative Array Initializers

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Serg Kovrov wrote:
>> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>>> No, that's one of the big missing things.
>>
>> Exactly!
>>
> 
> Seems like with tuples now it might be possible to make a function that 
> would do the trick:
> 
> int[char[]] months = AA("Jan", 1, "Feb", 2, "Mar", 3);
> 
> This could be another interesting challenge akin to Andrei's max() 
> challenge.  Write a function that constructs an AA from it's arguments 
> using the "best" types.
> 
> For that matter it would be interesting to see a template which 
> constructs an array using the best type to hold the arguments (as 
> opposed to just the type of the first argument).
> 
> --bb

I actually have an Assoc! template in Cashew for this, except the syntax is:
int[char[]] months = Assoc!(
   ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar"],
   [1    , 2    , 3    ]
);

Your "inline" means might be better, though, now that we have Tuples.

Also, for the moment, the "workaround" is to initialize the associative array in a module 
constructor.  I would love to see this fixed ASAP.  (Feels like such a sore spot.)

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls