Article on Tuples

[Kyle Furlong]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> 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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