Empty array literals

[retard]

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:30:35 -0500, bearophile wrote:

> In D null can also be used to represent an empty associative array. If
> you think of AAs as instances of a class to be used by reference, then
> using a null to represent an empty AA is meaningful (the main difference
> is that you don't need "new" to allocate it at the beginning).

The associative array is a sad type in D. It has nasty semantics. I'd 
like to see it as a real library defined type with just syntactic sugar 
for constructing literals. Too bad that's not what Walter thinks.