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

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On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 18:07:57 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Meta:
>
>> Isn't that also the case for the auto*, const[], immutable[$], 
>> etc. syntax? Conceptually it feels the same to me as Kenji's 
>> enhancement; I don't know enough about the compiler to talk 
>> about it technically.
>
> One difference between Kenji's enhancement and the AA type 
> inference is that arr[$] length inference for arrays is useful 
> in many situations and it helps avoid some bugs and make the 
> code more DRY. So it's a different degree of usefulness.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Kenji also implemented functionality to allow all of the 
following:

auto[] ai = new int[](3);
const* ci = new int(1);
immutable[$] = [1, 2, 3];