"Jakob Ovrum" wrote in message news:whwxxduozvqjrcldm...@forum.dlang.org...
Alright, that looks more short-term viable than Stepanov's approach. I don't think I'm overplaying the issue though - it is a tall order to ask for compile-time construction of AAs that are then usable at runtime, and it's not fair to present them as a fundamental feature, or their absence as a bug, because it's not like other languages have anything near this kind of power.
This used to be true, but now we can pass heap-allocated structs and classes from compile-time to run-time. The fact we can't do the same for AAs is an embarrassing limitation.
It would have happened years ago if AAs weren't such a mess.
