grauzone wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
There are significant technical problems with having functions
return tuples.<
A possibly stupid question: isn't it enough to return a custom struct?
No, because of the alignment mismatches with other uses of tuples.
I don't understand, what does alignment have to do with such a high
level construct?
You can use a tuple to populate a struct with fields, and it's
interchangeable with manually populating the fields. You can also use a
tuple to pass args to a function, and it's interchangeable with manually
listing the args.
But if you populate a struct with a tuple, then pass the struct as an
arg, it is *not* interchangeable with manually listing the args, as the
alignment is different.
