Just where has this language gone wrong?

Regan Heath regan at netmail.co.nz
Tue Jul 24 07:49:14 PDT 2012


On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:42:19 +0100, Stuart <stugol at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 23 July 2012 at 21:14:31 UTC, Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:51:19 +0200, Stuart <stugol at gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Saves us having to create a struct for every goddamn little function;  
>>> or using tuples directly, which means we have to refer to variables  
>>> like .value1 and .value2 instead of something meaningful.
>>
>> You mean like this?
>>
>> Tuple!(float, "x", float, "y") bar() {
>>     return typeof(return)( 0.0, 0.0 );
>> }
>>
>> auto xCoord = bar().x;
>
> You mean it's already supported? Nice! Although, It'd still be awesome  
> to be able to do things like:
>
>     auto a,b = bar();
>
>     auto c,_ = bar();

Sadly the comma operator (inherited from C/C++) blocks this syntax.

R

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