On Thursday, 26 December 2013 at 08:35:58 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
Are those at module scope (i.e. outside of any function)? Although it can be argued that it should be possible to produce the initial value of b at compile time, it is currently not possible.
To elaborate: the problem is not with the computation of b's initializer (duh, it even prints the result in the error message), but attempting to retain an associative array created at compile-time for runtime.
There is some progress in this area; as of last release (or maybe the one before that?), we are able to transfer class instances created at compile-time to runtime. It may take some time before we gain the same capability for associatve arrays, because their implementation is a tangled mess, but it is a work in progress.
