[bodge5000]

It was a little over a week ago now so my memory is a bit hazy, but I'll try to the best of my knowledge.

Without getting into the weeds of why (happy to do so, just want to keep this readable), basically I needed to define and populate a hashmap in a new script and then import it into my main script, which to my mind left me with two options:

* Define and initialise it at the same time (my preferred method) as a constant. I don't have much to say on this as iirc, I had no luck with it at all, never even got close.

* Define it in a (public) function, add each field in with "put" and then return the hashmap. I tried with std.AutoHashMap and various other things, but to what I could work out there was no type of hashmap, so it wouldn't accept my return type.

[hazebooth]

I think for the first point you wanted a block that evaluated to the map, unsure if that’s what you wanted though

[bodge5000]

I think so, if I write it out in pseudo code it might make more sense. What I was trying to do was pretty much:

    const mymap = {1: "hello", 2: "world"};

But the only thing I could find any answers for was something more like:

    const mymap; mymap.put(1, "hello"); mymap.put(2, "world");

[ForkMeOnTinder]

Here's how you return a hashmap from a function:

  fn buildMap(allocator: std.mem.Allocator) !std.AutoHashMap(u64, u64) {
      var result = std.AutoHashMap(u64, u64).init(allocator);
      errdefer result.deinit();
      try result.put(10, 100);
      try result.put(20, 200);
      return result;
  }

Your #1 option should be possible once Zig has comptime allocators -- it's on the roadmap, but not possible yet iirc.

[bodge5000]

If I remember correctly I tried almost exactly that, I think it was just the bang operator I missed out (obviously essential in this case).

Cheers for letting me know though!