A Discussion of Tuple Syntax

[Zach the Mystic]

On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 20:46:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>> void main() {
>>     auto t1 = #(5, "hello", 1.5);
>>     auto (?,  ?, x) = t1;
>>     auto (?, gr, ?) = t1;
>> }
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> It's stuff like this that's just useless and gives a bad 
> direction to the whole discussion. There's hardly anything 
> wrong with auto x = t1[2] or auto gr = t1[1], but once the 
> bikeshed is up for painting, the rainbow won't suffice.
>
>
> Andrei

I agree. The negative space *around* the bikeshed should be 
used...

auto (void, void, x) = t1;

(Just an idea I had. Don't know whether it's technically sound. 
It just seemed so funny to me that the idea popped into my head 
as soon as you said "rainbow". Not trying to waste time. )