On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 at 00:10:27 UTC, Andy Valencia wrote:
I had a set of default error messages to go with error code
numbers, and did something along the lines of:
string[uint] error_text = [
400: "A message",
401: "A different message"
];
and got "expression .... is not a constant"
I eventually found this discussion:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6238
I understand that it's problematic, but a message which makes
it clearer that compile-time initialization of global AA's are
not supported? Because it cost me about a half hour trying to
figure out what I was doing wrong.
This error message was changed in 2.101.x (unsure which point
release):
```
onlineapp.d(1): Error: static initializations of associative
arrays is not allowed.
onlineapp.d(1): associative arrays must be initialized at
runtime:
https://dlang.org/spec/hash-map.html#runtime_initialization
```
(My workaround was to initialize the data structure once during
app startup.)
This was fixed [in
2.106.0](https://dlang.org/changelog/2.106.0.html#dmd.static-assoc-array)
please upgrade your compiler.
-Steve
