On Monday, 14 September 2015 at 07:05:23 UTC, Meta wrote:
You could turn it into a Tuple and use the `expand` method to
get a TypeTuple (AliasSeq).
import std.typecons;
import std.typetuple;
import std.stdio;
template genTypeList(T, size_t n)
{
static if (n <= 1)
{
alias genTypeList = T;
}
else
{
alias genTypeList = TypeTuple!(T, genTypeList!(T, n - 1));
}
}
auto asTuple(T, size_t n)(ref T[n] arr)
{
return Tuple!(genTypeList!(T, n))(arr);
}
void test(T...)(T xs)
{
writeln("Length: ", T.length, ", Elements: ", xs);
}
void main()
{
int[5] a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4];
test(a); //Length: 1, Elements: [0, 1, 2,
3, 4]
test(a.asTuple.expand); //Length: 5, Elements: 01234
}
Is there a reason why such a common thing isn't already in
Phobos? If not what about adding it to std.typecons : asTuple