get from tuple by type

[Charles Cooper via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Not offended at all :), in fact it was not even my suggestion 
that it be included in the standard. I was just knee jerk 
reacting to the comment that, just because something is simple to 
do precludes it from getting standardized

On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 23:28:18 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>
> sorry if you feel offended, i never meant that. what i meant is 
> that it's
> hard in c++, but easy in D when one knows how to do that. i've 
> learned D
> mostly by reading other people code, and there is nothing wrong 
> in asking
> questions, quite the contrary.
>
> but the requested solution is not "universal" enough to be 
> included in
> Phobos (what if i want an index instead of a value? or (index, 
> value)
> tuple? or just check if it is there? or find either `int` or 
> `double`?).
> it's easier to write specialized template for required cases 
> than to try
> to make it generic (and complex) enough. but it's much harder 
> to write
> that in c++, to the extent that it's easier to include that 
> things in
> standard.
>
> just stay with us and you will see that D shines in such things 
> (and in
> many other areas too ;-).