associative arrays:

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:27:14 +0400, Jarrett Billingsley
> <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:18 PM, llee <Larry at workingwondersus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there any reason why the following fails with an ArrayBoundsError
>>> error?
>>>
>>>    import std.cstream;
>>>
>>>    void main ()
>>>    {
>>>         string [string] array = ["name": "value"];
>>>         dout.writefln ("value: %s", array ["name"]);
>>>    }
>>>
>>> I've been using the following work around, But I'm not sure why the above
>>> fails.
>>>
>>>    ...
>>>    string [string] array;
>>>    array ["name"] = "value";
>>>    ...
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain this?
>>>
>>
>> Might be helpful to know what version of the compiler you're using.
>> This code works for me in 1.034.
>
> It doesn't for me (2.019)
>

Then fail!