Associative Array Initializers

[Bill Baxter]

Kevin Bealer wrote:
> 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 don't know why all this syntax is needed; in particular, without the 
> a.dup, it crashes.  I don't know why -- it might be a bug or just a bad 
> assumption on my part.

make it 'inout a', maybe?

--bb