• =?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques (18/18) Dec 14 2017 The documentation for AAs gives out this example
• Jonathan M Davis (11/29) Dec 14 2017 It should probably just be changed to used a shared static constructor. ...

=?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques <luis luismarques.eu> writes:

The documentation for AAs gives out this example 
(<https://dlang.org/spec/hash-map.html#static_initialization>):

     immutable long[string] aa = [
       "foo": 5,
       "bar": 10,
       "baz": 2000
     ];

     unittest
     {
         assert(aa["foo"] == 5);
         assert(aa["bar"] == 10);
         assert(aa["baz"] == 2000);
     }

This isn't actually supported:

<https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6238>
<https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578>

Given how long this limitation has persisted, wouldn't it be best 
to remove that section from the documentation?

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Friday, December 15, 2017 03:49:53 Luís Marques via Digitalmars-d wrote:
 The documentation for AAs gives out this example
 (<https://dlang.org/spec/hash-map.html#static_initialization>):

      immutable long[string] aa = [
        "foo": 5,
        "bar": 10,
        "baz": 2000
      ];

      unittest
      {
          assert(aa["foo"] == 5);
          assert(aa["bar"] == 10);
          assert(aa["baz"] == 2000);
      }

 This isn't actually supported:

 <https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6238>
 <https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578>

 Given how long this limitation has persisted, wouldn't it be best
 to remove that section from the documentation?

It should probably just be changed to used a shared static constructor. e.g.

immutable long[string] aa;

shared static this()
{
    aa = ["foo": 5,
          "bar": 10,
          "baz": 2000];
}

since that does work.

- Jonathan M Davis