The new, new phobos sneak preview

Daniel Keep daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 03:29:26 PDT 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>> I wonder what a good name would be.
>>
>> How about...
>>
>> umm...
>>
>> oh I don't know.  "Tuple"?
> 
> Tuple is taken by tuples.
> 
> Andrei

Every language I know of that uses tuples allows for anything to be in
them.  We have to think of a different name for compile time/runtime
tuples.  MetaTuple and Tuple/tuple?

Maybe Tuple and ValueTuple/vtuple?

I have to admit I quite like bearophile's name for them: "record."

  -- Daniel



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