Associative arrays

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/18/21 7:54 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 09:41:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad wrote:
>> It  could look the same, but long[string] would now be a shorthand for 
>> std.xyz.Map!(long,string) or something like that instead of a special 
>> case.
> 
> It would actually be really cool if the AA literal was just rewritten 
> into a constructor call of key, value, key, value, ....
> 
> 
> _d_aa_literal(T...)(T args) // pragma(discardable) too would be nice
> 
> [4: "hello", 6: "bye"]
> 
> _d_aa_literal(4, "hello", 6, "bye")
> 
> 
> Then you can construct it at ctfe and it retains the order and the 
> capability of heterogeneous types. It'd be overpowered to an awesome 
> extent... and would fix that annoying static initialization of AA things.

Let's make that 2 arrays (static or stack-allocated dynamic) to avoid 
the vararg template cost.

-Steve