Declaring Ref Variables Inside Function Calls

[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el 31 de marzo a las 17:55 me escribiste:
> >But in Python or ML, no question. I'd happily write a function that
> >returns (2, 4.2) without giving it much thought.  Now perhaps cogent
> >arguments like "blech" and "belch" can convince me that I should
> >embrace the Tuple!(int,float) and use it everywhere, just like I'd use
> >tuples in Python and ML, but so far I'm not convinced.
> >To me it seems to be in the same league as int[] vs std::vector<int>.
> >int[] -- great I'll happily use that everywhere.  std::vector<int>
> >kind of a pain, use begrudgingly as needed.
> 
> Well I think a language can only have so many built-in types. We can't
> go on forever.

You don't have to. There are very few types that are extremely useful to
build up things having a good syntax. I think Python got this right:
tuples, lists, hashes. That's all you need as first class citizens
(speaking of "containers"). I think D is only missing tuples (dynamic
arrays works just fine as lists in D).

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