On 09/23/2016 03:39 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 14:13:26 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Would be interesting to get some opinions on this.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1282
Bringing up this topic again b/c there was still almost no feedback on
the actual plan. Here is a summary.
- built-in AA is too magic to be replaced by library AA
- provide a general purpose library AA with enough benefits for people
to live with incompatibilities
- add a cheap toBuiltinAA adapter for compatibility of the library AA
with existing code
- make array and AA literals usable with UDTs
- slowly deprecated magic behavior of the built-in AA
- switch built-in AA to library AA
Also we should plan for a std.container.aa to deal w/ all the fancy
generic/specialized stuff.
Seems a good plan to me. I predict the difficult part will be to do that
slow deprecation thing; there are quite a few subtleties. But I'm sure
we'll overcome them. Thanks! -- Andrei
