Associative arrays

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 12:01:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 11:54:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> It would actually be really cool if the AA literal was just 
>> rewritten into a constructor call of key, value, key, value, 
>> ....
>
> That is an interesting thought.  I was thinking more in the 
> direction of a compile time type for literals that could be 
> passed around and comsumed by some destination type.  But I 
> have not given this a lot of thought, so maybe your suggestion 
> is sufficient? The only way to gind out is to map out all the 
> usage scenarios and find something that the type system can 
> resolve.

Here is another idea: a compile time forward range that produces 
key,value pairs...