On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:05:46 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
On 3/15/12 11:02 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
This is good, and very, very important. Do *not* make any attempt at
compiler integration until it is *completely* ready.
This includes AA literals. They need to be accepted somehow. The
compiler will give you syntax sugar and *nothing* more.
One possibility might be to accept a pair of array literals,
representing keys and values.
Possibly it should call a CTFE function to convert them into some other
form?
Offhand, I think this rewrite should be sufficient:
[e11:e12, e21:e22]
--->
.object.associativeArrayLiteral(e11, e12, e21, e22)
Then type manipulation and template constraints can take care of the
rest. Am I missing something?
Wouldn't this require a new template instantiation for each sized AA per
key/value type? Or were you planning to use varargs?
So long as the data that is actually passed to the AA is on the stack (and
simply a slice is passed), I like Don's idea better.
-Steve
