Momentary Eh?! for a Dynamic Language Programmmer. Tuples vs Arrays. Just rambling.

[Chris Williams via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 23 June 2014 at 21:18:39 UTC, John Carter wrote:
> I guess between perl and Ruby and Scheme etc. I got used to 
> creating hybrid containers....
>
> Want a pair of [string, fileList]? Just make an Array with two 
> items, one a string, one and array of strings. Done.
>
> D barfed... leaving me momentarily stunned... then Oh Yes, type 
> safety, Tuple's are the answer where Tuples where Tuples...
>
> Eventually found http://dlang.org/tuple.html and more 
> specifically the somewhat unexpectedly named 
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_typecons.html and off I went...
>
> I do have a personal design guideline of when you adding too 
> much behaviour to a heterocontainer, refactor into a class.
>
> But I guess I have never realised how often I do casually 
> create heterogenous containers....
>
> Just rambling and musing.

More likely what you want are variants:

http://dlang.org/library/std/variant/variantArray.html
http://dlang.org/library/std/variant.html

Tuples can hold multiple types, but they're only available during 
compile time.