Associative Arrays with elements having function type?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 09:29:47PM +0000, kdevel via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Yesterday I read
> 
>     3. Neither the KeyTypes nor the element types of an associative array
>     can be function types or void.
> 
> in <https://dlang.org/spec/hash-map.html>. Does the program below work
> only accidentally?
[...]

I think this is a mistake in the spec. There is no reason why the value
type of an AA can't be a function (pointer) or delegate.  I use this
quite a lot.

However, there may be a restriction that the key type cannot be a
function.


T

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