Tuple DIP

[12345swordy]

On Sunday, 3 January 2021 at 05:44:57 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 01.01.21 19:53, Rekel wrote:
>> Is this DIP dead?
>
> Let's say it's hibernating. Originally I wanted to spend time 
> on it during the hackathon at dconf 2018. Andrei wanted me to 
> instead work on __mutable, claiming it was of strategic 
> importance while tuples are not. He then completely binned 
> __mutable later. Right now I am just too busy to champion this, 
> and the lack of enthusiasm from decision makers does not help 
> motivate me to attempt trading some of my health for tuples.
>
>> Several parts of the proposal seem very nice to me, and it 
>> seems like a waste not to have it considered. (assuming 
>> https://github.com/tgehr/DIPs/blob/tuple-syntax/DIPs/DIP1xxx-tg.md is the latest version of this not submitted proposal)
>> ...
>
> It's mostly a matter of rebasing/finishing the implementation 
> and possibly arguing on the forums for a couple of weeks/months.
>
>> Slightly unrelated, but wouldn't it be better to change the 
>> comma operator to a different symbol entirely?
>
> Ideally we'd just add tuple syntax and then use (..,..,..)[$-1] 
> as a replacement for the comma operator.

I am currently working on properties right now and that requires 
all my focus on that. I have a unfinished DIP on tuples which is 
no where near finished as I wanted.

I am willing to spend 500 us dollars on a bounty for tuples if 
that gives you the motivation to finished this.