Automatic Inference for Both Key and Value Types of an Associative Array

[Meta via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 17:37:54 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Meta"  wrote in message 
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>> Something H.S. Teoh in a recent pull request in Github got me 
>> thinking that it would be useful in some cases to tell the 
>> compiler that you want to automatically infer the either the 
>> key type or value type of an AA. Something like the following:
>
> How often do you actually want to do this?  At best it's a 
> bunch of weird partial type special cases in the compiler.

Isn't that also the case for the auto*, const[], immutable[$], 
etc. syntax? Conceptually it feels the same to me as Kenji's 
enhancement; I don't know enough about the compiler to talk about 
it technically.