Associative Array Initializers

[Kevin Bealer]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> 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

I haven't checked to see whether that works - but even if it does, I 
still don't see *why* it's more legal.

Kevin