On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 07:54:44 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
It only works with integral types of at most 32-bits at the
moment, but most built-in types are fairly easy to support.
The downside is requires re-implementing druntime's AA and
hashing algorithms in the compiler, and keeping them in sync
when either changes.
It might make sense as an intermediate step. After all it's
fairly simple and who knows how long we'll take to change the AA
implementation.
But what I find unacceptable is a lousy intermediate solution
that supports int, but not short and only if the value isn't a
const string or a class starting with the letter K.
I don't want to add another facet to the already long AA story.
So if you can fix the problem and are willing to do the work, go
on. Just adding a tiny hack makes the situation worse IMO.
