D roadmap?

[ixid]

On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 17:18:55 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Joseph Rushton Wakeling:
>
>> What are your issues with tuples? Not doubting, genuinely 
>> curious to hear your reasoning.
>
> There's a significant need for a handy safe nice and very 
> compact syntax to unpack (de-structure) tuples in assignments, 
> foreach loops and function signatures (and switch cases), 
> because the current syntax is not good enough. There are few 
> other smaller related features that are handy, but they have a 
> lower priority. Currently there is also a small syntax mess in 
> tuple unpacking in foreach that needs to be fixed.
>
> There are several past threads that show and discuss this topic 
> well, that you can read. There is also a DIP created by Kenji, 
> that he didn't update with the small suggestions and fixes 
> suggested in a thread because the main syntax design of that 
> DIP was found to be flawed. Successive suggestions for a 
> workable syntax have gone nowhere.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

What became of using the comma operator with parens for tuples? 
That seemed to offer by far the most elegant option than some of 
the curly bracket messes.