A Discussion of Tuple Syntax

Dicebot public at dicebot.lv
Mon Aug 19 10:34:38 PDT 2013


On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 17:22:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> What I'd like to know, is how all of these proposals address the
> fundamental differences between "symbol tuples" (compile-time 
> construct)

Those are not symbol tuples. For example, `int` is not a symbol. 
http://dlang.org/template.html#Symbol - only things that have 
identifiers and template instances are symbols.

> As far as I can tell, people
> are still confusing the two, and it's really not helping.

Completely removing TypeTuple from library (which native syntax 
will enable) will help to remove large part of confusion.


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