[Issue 8363] Empty array literal does not implicitly convert to associative array

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Oliver Rümpelein  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Status|NEW |RESOLVED
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 Resolution|--- |WONTFIX

--- Comment #6 from Oliver Rümpelein  ---
Starting with 2.071, you can use "aa.clear()" to achieve the desired behaviour.

If you are still in the need for the proposed syntax, please reopen this issue
or write a DIP (as this would modify the behaviour of the language).

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[Issue 8363] Empty array literal does not implicitly convert to associative array

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yebblies yebbl...@gmail.com changed:

   What|Removed |Added

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Summary|Provide an intutive way to  |Empty array literal does
   |clear all entries in|not implicitly convert to
   |Associative Array   |associative array


--- Comment #3 from yebblies yebbl...@gmail.com 2012-07-10 01:54:12 EST ---
(In reply to comment #0)
 aa = []; // clear all array entries
 

This should probably work.

 
 At this point only this works. I think this is not very intuitive.
 
 int[string] aa;
 int[string] empty;
 
 aa[foo] = 1;
 aa = empty;

try

aa = null;

But be careful, don't forget AAs are reference types.

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--- Comment #4 from Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com 2012-07-09 10:45:46 
PDT ---
 aa.clear() should work.

I believe that that's the same as setting it to null. It doesn't actually
remove anything from the AA. It just makes that reference null. If you want to
actually remove all of the elements from the AA, you currently have to iterate
over them and call remove on each one.

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--- Comment #5 from Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com 2012-07-09 11:02:47 
PDT ---
However, with clear being renamed to destroy for 2.060 (with clear scheduled
for deprecation), I don't see any problem with adding a clear function to AAs
which actually clears the AA (that's probably what most everyone using clear on
AAs wanted anyway). Presumably, that could be done as part of the AA
implementation redesign that's currently being worked on.

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