On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 14:15:58 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
Hi.
I wanted to check whether a few variables of the same type are
all distinct, in a quick and dirty way. I tried to do it
similar to Python's "len(set(value_list)) == len(value_list)"
idiom by using an associative array (AA). At this point, I
found out that when initializing the AA with a literal, the
length is the number of keys given, regardless of whether some
of them were the same.
A minimized example:
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import std.stdio;
void main () {
auto aa = [1 : 2, 1 : 3];
writeln (aa.length, " ", aa); // 2 [1:3, ]
}
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See, the length is 2, but iteration over aa yields only one
key:value pair. Also, note the comma which is a sign of
internal confusion as well.
My question is, what's the state of this? Is this a bug? Or
should it be forbidden to have such an initializer? Or maybe
it is a feature with some actual merit?
Ivan Kazmenko.
It's a bug, please report it. The initializer should be
statically disallowed.
Adding a .dup works around the problem.
By the way, you can do sets like this, avoiding storing any dummy
values, only keys:
struct Set(T)
{
void[0][T] data;
void insert(T x)
{
data[x] = (void[0]).init;
}
void remove(T x)
{
data.remove(x);
}
bool opBinaryRight(string op : "in")(T e)
{
return !!(e in data);
}
// other things like length, etc.
}
unittest
{
Set!int s;
s.insert(4);
assert(4 in s);
s.remove(4);
assert(4 !in s);
}
