On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 17:18:55 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Joseph Rushton Wakeling:
What are your issues with tuples? Not doubting, genuinely
curious to hear your reasoning.
There's a significant need for a handy safe nice and very
compact syntax to unpack (de-structure) tuples in assignments,
foreach loops and function signatures (and switch cases),
because the current syntax is not good enough. There are few
other smaller related features that are handy, but they have a
lower priority. Currently there is also a small syntax mess in
tuple unpacking in foreach that needs to be fixed.
There are several past threads that show and discuss this topic
well, that you can read. There is also a DIP created by Kenji,
that he didn't update with the small suggestions and fixes
suggested in a thread because the main syntax design of that
DIP was found to be flawed. Successive suggestions for a
workable syntax have gone nowhere.
Bye,
bearophile
What became of using the comma operator with parens for tuples?
That seemed to offer by far the most elegant option than some of
the curly bracket messes.
