An annoying compile issue

[WhatMeWorry via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 03:53:21 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 26 October 2015 at 03:44:31 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
>> First, isn't Vector!(float,3) a template which creates a tuple 
>> consisting of float, float, float; so aren't the argument 
>> types identical?
>
> I'm not familiar with the gl3n library so I'm not sure what 
> their Vector is, but most D templates are not created from 
> tuples and don't work that way.
>
> Looking at the source, it indeed seems to be based on a static 
> array rather than a tuple:
> https://github.com/Dav1dde/gl3n/blob/master/gl3n/linalg.d#L49
>
> ---
>  vt[dimension] vector; /// Holds all coordinates, length 
> conforms dimension.
> ---
>
> Which means there's no simple, built-in way to getting a tuple 
> out of that. You could write one though, and recently there was 
> a post about maybe putting that in Phobos, but it isn't there 
> now.
>
>> model = model.scale(size.x, size.y, 1.0f);
>
> meh that's prolly what I'd do... unless you wanted to modify 
> the library and add some expansion code to that vector type.

Ok. If it's good enough for ADR, it's good enough for me.  Thanks 
all.