On Friday, 28 March 2014 at 02:21:11 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
Sounds like a terrible idea as tuples are such an important tool in a modern programming language. It also seems unnecessary because there are many syntax alternatives. In fact a syntax decision would be the missing ingredient to get http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP32 rolling.
The problem with tuples is not syntax, but semantics: DIP32 should specify, when automatic unpacking happens and when doesn't, that's a very sloppy feature, so it should be specified better. Other corner cases I can think about: is one-element tuple equivalent to that one element, is array literal a tuple, is string literal a tuple, how to infer packed and unpacked tuples, how to remember all these subtle features?
