On Monday, 22 August 2016 at 06:19:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Terminology wise, we distinguish between associative arrays (AA) and arrays. The former should never simply be called 'array', otherwise people will assume you are referring to either or both of foo[] (dynamic array/slice) or foo[N] (where N is an integer constant, a static array). Change your title to 'Creating an AA of user-defined structs' and the misunderstanding goes away.
That's a terribly confusing naming convention for beginners then! :P Is this D-specific terminology, or is this a more general convention that AA are not actually arrays? This might help my understanding of when to use or not use one or the other. :)
