Article on Tuples

[Bruno Medeiros]

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

You have the misspell "evaluatible" there.

Also, for what I see in this article, the 
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/template.html spec doc is a bit incomplete. 
No mention that Tuples can be used to "declare variables", only 
parameters. I also found the statement "A Tuple is not a type," a bit 
misleading since it seems Tuples are heading in a direction that makes 
them *somewhat* a type (you can declare variables with them, and even 
return them from functions).

Another potentially misleading statement is the:
"Tuples are static compile time entities, there is no way to dynamically 
change, add, or remove elements."
It's true for most tuples, but not quite so for a tuple-variable, since 
you can change the elements of a tuple-variable.

Speaking of tuple variables, man, that is deep stuff :P . It took me a 
while to grok that and to come up with a conceptualization that made 
sense and fit adequately. I'm thinking that tuple-variables are somewhat 
like anonymous structs, they are tuples of values, which happen to be 
Lvalues too, unlike the other expression/value templates.

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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