On Friday, 25 April 2014 at 12:42:33 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Dicebot:
Well, wrong :) std.typecons.Tuple IS a struct -
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/typecons.d#L388
Nope, that's just an implementation detail. They are two quite
different data structures. Example: slicing a tuple always has
a meaning, while slicing a struct is in general meaningless.
Bye,
bearophile
It was what you want it to be, not what it is :) Slicing a struct
is absolutely routine thing as struct is just a user-defined
aggregate type. std.typecons.Tuple is just a subset of all
structs implementing specific behavior. It still acts as struct
everywhere when applicable.
Don't confuse std.typecons.Tuple and built-in template argument
lists. Latter are indeed special type system entities. Former is
just a smart struct.
