TypeTuple!(T...) vs Tuple!(T...)
Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 11:49:17 PDT 2015
On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 18:48:16 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 11:49:18 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 08:10:27 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>>> The tuple page is even confusing me
>>> http://dlang.org/tuple.html
>>>
>>>>A variable declared with a TypeTuple becomes an
>>>>ExpressionTuple:
>>>>alias TL = Tuple!(int, long);
>>>
>>> is it using Tuple!(T...) and TypeTuple!(T...) interchangeably?
>>
>> Almost.
>>
>> `Tuple` is defined at the top of the article as `template
>> Tuple(E...) {alias Tuple = E;}`.
>>
>> "TypeTuple" is later defined as a `Tuple` whose elements
>> "elements are solely types".
>>
>> So, in the context of the article, `Tuple!(int, long)` is a
>> "TypeTuple", because it's a `Tuple` of types.
>>
>> The article does not refer to `std.typecons.Tuple` or
>> `std.typetuple.TypeTuple` at all. Specifically, the article's
>> `Tuple` is not `std.typecons.Tuple`. And the article's
>> "TypeTuple" is not `std.typetuple.TypeTuple`. However, going
>> for bonus confusion points, the article's `Tuple` is defined
>> the same as `std.typetuple.TypeTuple`.
>
> That's... really confusing and probably needs a rewrite
> honestly.
Yep.
Atila
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