Type tuple pointers

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu May 21 09:14:02 PDT 2015


On 05/21/2015 06:05 PM, Alex Parrill wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 15:37:42 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Thursday, 21 May 2015 at 15:30:59 UTC, Alex Parrill wrote:
>>> They aren't types themselves, so `TypeTuple!(int, char) var` doesn't
>>> make sense.
>>
>> Sadly, you are wrong on this one - this is actually a valid variable
>> declaration which will create two distinct local variables and uses
>> their aliases in resulting symbol list named 'var'.
>
> So it creates a variable for each type in the tuple, and stores the
> aliases in `var`? Huh, didn't know that.
>
> But still, `TypeTuple!(int,char)` isn't a real type, so having a pointer
> to one doesn't make sense.


Well, one might somewhat sensibly treat Seq!(char,char)* as 
Seq!(char*,char*). :o)


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