Static Initialization of AAs - when?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/28/22 8:36 PM, arandomonlooker wrote:
> Hello.
> I am posting here for the first time as a beginner to the D programming 
> language.
> I was curious about the fact that static initialization of associative 
> arrays, while being present in the specification, it has not yet been 
> implemented in the language.
> There is a plan to implement it in the future?
> Thank you all in advance.

You can do this with my [newaa 
project](https://code.dlang.org/packages/newaa):

```d
import schlib.newaa;

auto myAA = Hash!(string, int)(["hello" : 1, "world" : 2]);

void main()
{
    int[string] aa = myAA.asAA;
    writeln(aa);
}
```

Not much niceties there yet, notably, it doesn't print out well, or have 
a good factory function. You also cannot reinterpret as a builtin AA at 
compile time, because the reinterpret cast isn't possible.

But you can just use it as a drop-in replacement for builtin AAs. It 
actually is binary compatible, so you can have both a normal builtin AA 
reference to it, and a `Hash` reference, and both will work.

-Steve