Article on Tuples

[Georg Wrede]

Walter Bright wrote:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/tuple.html



This does it! For the last 2 years I've been a bit uneasy about letting 
a metalanguage "grow" on top of D, and in the back of my head I've 
slowly gathered and assembled together parts needed for an ambitious 
metalanguage for D.

But now I give up. Gotta admit, Walter, this is becoming simply Killer 
Stuff! Wish I could buy you a beer for this!

Right now I feel an urge to run out on the street yelling You Aint Seen 
Nothin Yet!!!

I feel like a tribesman who has been carrying this heavy crate through 
an enormous forest with the others, gathering mushrooms and berries and 
game to eventually bring home. And then there's this stone wall, and 
after some searching we find a gate, and when we open it we are blinded 
by the light of the endless fields ahead, virgin and rife with fruit 
trees and bushes with berries.

To be the ones to have found these fields, we feel privileged, honored, 
and somehow even indebted! Indebted to have respect for this bounty, 
while still finding everything there with diligence and vigor, and 
putting it all to the very best uses we can think of, so that we know we 
can stay proud of what we've done.

Standing there, before all this, we literally feel that History is in 
the Making, right here and right now. And we're in it! For the first 
time for many of us, we know at once that this is the very time, of 
which we'll be telling war stories to our children and grand children, 
for the rest of our lives. While normally such is realized only decades 
later, realizing it now makes us stand taller, prouder, and with extra 
resolve for the hardships that inevitably will face us before we're 
eventually home with the crate.