hashed array?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/14/12 1:25 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
> On 12/11/12 20:42, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Monday, November 12, 2012 11:36:38 H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> I contend that the problem with built-in AA's is their implementation,
>>> not the fact that they're built-in.
>>
>> Oh, I agree, but we, as a group, have obviously failed to handle the
>> implementation of the built-in AAs properly, and I think that the
>> indications
>> are definitely that it's harder to get the built-in AAs right that it
>> would be
>> to create a library solution.
>
> I disagree with that 100%.
> Built-in AAs in D1 work fine (They could use a lot of improvement, but
> there's nothing wrong with the basic approach, it's quite simple). It
> was the idea that they could be seamlessly moved to a library type that
> was an unmitigated disaster.
>
> And for some reason, there has been a refusal to roll it back to the old
> method which worked.

I think it is an absolute must that we move forward with a library 
implementation.

> The thing that really really should change is the bizarre 'magic null'
> semantics of AAs.

This is new! What does this mean?


Andrei