Associative arrays

Tue May 18 07:50:06 UTC 2021

On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 07:40:53 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
> On Monday, 10 May 2021 at 18:31:20 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> This has been on the list for many years, and I haven't seen 
>> any signs of it manifesting any time soon.
>
> Hi H. S.
>
> I assume it's not been done because it's hard.  Do you happen 
> to know what makes it a difficult problem for compiler 
> implementers? I don't need to know, but am curious.

I hope it stays unimplemented. AAs should be replaced by a 
library solution and AA literals should work with custom AAs. The 
special casing is not good for metaprogramming.