Worst ideas/features in programming languages?

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Tue Jan 4 04:20:25 UTC 2022


On 04/01/2022 4:11 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> (I understand that there is something in the DMD source code already 
> named "Tuple", but that's not really a tuple, it's a sequence of values 
> that will auto expand into any context. Being able to return that from 
> functions would be nice, but I think it's independent of what people are 
> talking about when they want tuples.)

Actually this is kinda what I want.

Remove array, AA definitions in syntax. All you have is a tuple.

A tuple accepts both named and unnamed types or values.

It can devolve into static arrays, associative arrays, dynamic arrays 
all implicitly.


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