On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:48:22 -0400 Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > > Once a one-element tuple becomes equivalent to the actual item, > there's an explosion of trouble and special cases in the language and > in code that uses it. For example, divide and conquer code that > manipulates tuples and takes t[0 .. $/2] and t[$/2+1 .. $] would > suddenly get to cases in which the slices are no longer tuples, and > so on. And that's only the beginning. >
I think one of us is missing something, and I'm not entirely sure who. As I explained (perhaps poorly), the zero- and one-element tuples *would still be* tuples. They would just be implicitly convertible to non-tuple form *if* needed, and vice versa. Do you see a reason why that would *necessarily* not be the case? > I think it's safe to just not even discuss it. A nice way to put it :/ Part politician perhaps? ;)
