Tuple DIP

[12345swordy]

On Wednesday, 19 September 2018 at 21:48:40 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 19.09.2018 23:14, 12345swordy wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 3 July 2018 at 16:11:05 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 28 June 2018 at 13:24:11 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Is there any way we can help on this?
>> 
>> *Bump* I want this.
>
> So do I, but I need to get a quiet weekend or so to finish this.
>
>> I am very tempted to start my own dip on this and finish it.
>
> Here's the current state of my implementation in DMD:
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/compare/master...tgehr:tuple-syntax
>
> It has no tests yet, but basically, with those changes, you can 
> write tuple literals `(1, 2.0, "3")`, you can unpack tuples 
> using `auto (a, b) = t;` or `(int a, string b) = t;`, and 
> tuples can be expanded using alias this on function calls, so 
> you can now write things like 
> `zip([1,2,3],[4,5,6]).map!((a,b)=>a+b)`.
>
> The implementation is still missing built-in syntax for tuple 
> types, tuple assignments, and tuple unpacking within function 
> argument lists and foreach loops.

I was referring to the DIP. I am not familiar with the dmd 
compiler itself to create an implementation. Regardless I think 
you should finish you DIP and submit it as the process is going 
to take a very long time.