Pair literal for D language

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On Thursday, 26 June 2014 at 21:17:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:08:24PM +0000, Uranuz via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Thanks for response. I was thinking that adding new statement 
>> for such
>> feature is not very good too. Is there any recent discussions 
>> about
>> tuble literals. There is proposal in wiki but I don't know if 
>> it will
>> be accepted or not for some time. For now seems like it's 
>> better to
>> alias tuple and use it instead of literal
>
> Note that the word "tuple" in D is used to refer to two very 
> different
> things. What you want is essentially an anonymous struct, and 
> should be
> adequately covered by std.typecons.tuple.
>
> Most of the tuple proposals, however, also seek to unify the
> functionality of std.typecons.tuple with the so-called 
> "compile-time
> tuples" or "type tuples", which are a rather different beast 
> (though
> they do overlap with std.typecons.tuple somewhat). This is a 
> lot more
> complex, and probably beyond what you need anyway.
>
>
> T

We'd make a step forward when we stop calling type tuples type 
tuples. They are not tuples, and do not contain (only) types.