On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 14:43:21 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
is there a way for AA to behave same as PHP?
I doubt it. This snippet suggests that AA's in PHP are not simply AA's and do additionally track insertion order (or use some similar trick). Data in associative arrays is organized in a way that allows fast key lookup and iterating in an original order requires tracking extra state. Contrary to PHP, D does care about performance so I see no way this can happen automatically.
There is a good chance that if you rely on key order, you don't really need an AA but plain array of key-value tuples instead.
