Ah, maybe my assumptions were just wrong. All I knew was that something like
this is not possible:
# can't use `Anonymous` as return type
proc test(): Anonymous =
type Anonymous = object
x: int
y: int
result = Anonymous(x: 0, y: 0)
But it looks like objects can already be anonymous, because this seem to work:
proc test(): auto =
type Anonymous = object
x: int
y: int
result = Anonymous(x: 0, y: 0)
Not being able to write out the type explicitly feels weird though. And things
get messy when structural equivalence matters:
proc testA(): auto =
type Anonymous = object
x: int
y: int
result = Anonymous(x: 0, y: 0)
proc testB(): auto =
type Anonymous = object
x: int
y: int
result = Anonymous(x: 0, y: 0)
# this works
echo testA() == testA()
# this doesn't
echo testA() == testB()
So maybe objects aren't too far away to replace named tuples already. But I
have to say that I still like the simplicity of named tuples a lot and will
surely miss the nice syntax .
