On Monday, 23 June 2014 at 21:18:39 UTC, John Carter wrote:
I guess between perl and Ruby and Scheme etc. I got used to creating hybrid containers....

Want a pair of [string, fileList]? Just make an Array with two items, one a string, one and array of strings. Done.

D barfed... leaving me momentarily stunned... then Oh Yes, type safety, Tuple's are the answer where Tuples where Tuples...

Eventually found http://dlang.org/tuple.html and more specifically the somewhat unexpectedly named http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html and off I went...

I do have a personal design guideline of when you adding too much behaviour to a heterocontainer, refactor into a class.

But I guess I have never realised how often I do casually create heterogenous containers....

Just rambling and musing.

More likely what you want are variants:

http://dlang.org/library/std/variant/variantArray.html
http://dlang.org/library/std/variant.html

Tuples can hold multiple types, but they're only available during compile time.

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