Is there a way to declare and initialize associative arrays?  Something along the lines of:

   const int[char[]] foo =  list of pairs?

Thanks.

"Steve Adams" <adamss@ascinet.com> wrote in message news:40521D81.4030808@ascinet.com...
> Is there a way to declare and initialize associative arrays?  Something along the lines of:
>
>     const int[char[]] foo =  list of pairs?

Currently, there isn't. One way to do it is to use a module constructor to load up the array.

I think you will find that info here:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/arrays.html

Phill.


"Steve Adams" <adamss@ascinet.com> wrote in message news:40521D81.4030808@ascinet.com...
> Is there a way to declare and initialize associative arrays?  Something along the lines of:
>
>     const int[char[]] foo =  list of pairs?
>
> Thanks.

When do you think that might become available?  I'm really looking forward to it personally, because I have a lot of those module constructors doing just that, and it would be nice to get it all in one statement.

I'm sure its all been said before, but I'm personally a fan of the : syntax...
const int[char[]] FOO = [
    "abc" : 1,
    "def" : 2,
    "ghi" : 3
];

Feels consistant with the struct syntax, and reminds me of Python all at once.  :)

-C. Sauls
-Invironz

Walter wrote:
> "Steve Adams" <adamss@ascinet.com> wrote in message
> news:40521D81.4030808@ascinet.com...
> 
>>Is there a way to declare and initialize associative arrays?  Something
>>along the lines of:
>>
>>    const int[char[]] foo =  list of pairs?
> 
> 
> Currently, there isn't. One way to do it is to use a module constructor to
> load up the array.

Walter wrote:
> "Steve Adams" <adamss@ascinet.com> wrote in message
> news:40521D81.4030808@ascinet.com...
> 
>>Is there a way to declare and initialize associative arrays?  Something
>>along the lines of:
>>
>>    const int[char[]] foo =  list of pairs?
> 
> 
> Currently, there isn't. One way to do it is to use a module constructor to
> load up the array.
> 
> 

Thanks, I'll use that approach.

"C. Sauls" <ibisbasenji@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:c2tess$2mki$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> When do you think that might become available?  I'm really looking forward to it personally, because I have a lot of those module constructors doing just that, and it would be nice to get it all in one statement.

Not for 1.0, but better array literals are a good candidate for 2.0.