DIP19: Remove comma operator from D and provision better syntactic support for tuples

[deadalnix]

Le 25/09/2012 01:39, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit :
> On 9/24/12 6:28 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Timon Gehr:
>>
>>>> My bikeshed is colored one of these:
>>>>
>>>> (:1,2)
>>>> (|1,2)
>>>>
>>>
>>> At that point you might as well just use
>>>
>>> import std.typecons : q = tuple, Q = Tuple;
>>>
>>> Q!(int, int) foo(){
>>> return q(1, 2);
>>> }
>>>
>>> If built-in tuples are not going to look like
>>>
>>> (1, 2)
>>>
>>> then imho we might as well leave them out,
>>
>> But the banana syntax doesn't look bad:
>>
>> (||)
>> (|1|)
>> (|1, 2|)
>> (|1, 2, 3|)
>
> tuple()
> tuple(1)
> tuple(1, 2)
> tuple(1, 2, 3)
>
> also arguably enjoys the same advantages and in fact is much more
> intuitive. Like, totally intuitive. Like, it says "tuple" to create a
> tuple. And one advantage is, there's never ever going to be butt jokes
> about tuple() as there'd be with "(||)".
>

The problem with tuple() isn't its syntax, but what you can or can't do 
with the resulting tuple.