Extend D's switch statement?

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/11/2015 12:50 AM, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
> On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 21:37:10 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 07/10/2015 12:50 AM, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 16:08:37 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>> On 07/09/2015 04:17 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>>> On 07/09/2015 02:54 PM, rsw0x wrote:
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> someone was willing to produce.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone is often willing to produce awkward language quirks, so I
>>>>> think
>>>>> being critical of new additions has some value.
>>>>
>>>> E.g.
>>>>
>>>> "Note: Cannot swap values by tuple assignment.
>>>>
>>>> int x = 1, y = 2;
>>>> {x, y} = {y, x};
>>>> // Lowered to:
>>>> // x = y, y = x;
>>>> assert(y == 2);
>>>> assert(x == 2);"
>>>>
>>>> No, please.
>>>
>>> Couldn't this could be detected at compile-time and temporary variables
>>> created?
>>
>> Oh, it certainly is simple to fix, it's just that we don't want this
>> sort of thing to make it into the language specification.
>
> Why not? Tuple handling seems like it should be a 1st class language
> feature... the disconnect between Tuple and TypeTuple always bothered me
> on a philosophical (and syntactic) level.

..?

We don't want the /broken/ thing, which I cited, to make it into the 
language specification.