Re: How to make a global immutable associative array?

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On Wednesday, 19 March 2014 at 00:16:31 UTC, dnspies wrote:
I want to create a global immutable associative array and have 
it be accessible from anywhere at compile-time.  How can I do 
that?

With:
immutable int[int] aa = [1:2,3:4];

I get:
source/thing.d(1): Error: non-constant expression [1:2, 3:4]

And with:
immutable int[int] aa;

static this(){
        aa = [1:2,3:4];
}

int c = aa[3];

I get:
source/thing.d(7): Error: static variable aa cannot be read at 
compile time

Also associative arrays don't seem to have a .idup

Is there any other way to do this?


You just have to construct it first and then claim that it is 
unique and so safely cast it to immutable:


import std.exception : assumeUnique;

immutable int[int] aa;

static this(){
   auto temp = [1:2, 3:4];
   aa = assumeUnique(temp);
}