[Swift-devel] Associative array in Swift [GSoC]

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 21:26 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:

> One practical problem, for example, is if I want to use the value of a[0]. 
> How can I know when that value is fully specified? If I have to wait until 
> there are no more writes to a[], then a lot of the pipelining stops 
> working - in swift now, i can use values of a[] as they are written (for 
> example, in foreach loop), without having to wait for a[] to be fully 
> populated.

I think a[0] would be treated like an array over which one could
iterate. But then we can already have arrays of arrays, so I'm not quite
sure what the issue is here.