How to pack types with variables in one message to send it to another thread? [tuple]

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On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 10:42:37 UTC, MarisaLovesUsAll 
wrote:
> Hi!
> I'm trying to make my program multithreaded, and I was stuck at 
> messaging between threads.
> I need to pack types and variables into one message. Will I use 
> Tuples or something?
>
> e.g.
>
> class Sprite {};
>
> send(tid, Sprite, "create", myInt);
>
> ................
>
> Also I don't understand how to use Variant. Messages can be 
> different, and I don't know how to extract data from variant.
>
> send(tid, "One", "Two", myInt);
>
> receive(
>     (Variant args)
>     {
>         /*
>         args contains Tuple!(string, string, int)("One", "Two", 
> 42);
>         I need simple access to data, e.g. args[0] args[1] 
> args[2]
>         but I don't know how to do this
>         because `.get` method need precise type of Tuple
>         */
>     }
> );
>
> Regards,
> MarisaLovesUsAll

receive() automatically expands tuples into multiple arguments.

receive((string s, string t, int i) {  });