Creating Anonymous structs

[Alex]

On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 20:53:50 UTC, Alex wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 20:03:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Saturday, 18 May 2019 at 15:59:05 UTC, Alex wrote:
>>> Structs combine data, I have a use case where I do not want 
>>> to litter the scope with variables and would like to put them 
>>> in a struct but the variable will only be used once.
>>
>> This is basically what Phobos's Tuple is.
>>
>> auto x = tuple(value_for_x, value_for_y);
>>
>> http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/std.typecons.tuple.html
>
> I thought about using them but they are not the same. A tuple 
> cannot have functionality. It's not as general as a struct or 
> class and it doesn't look as nice if the struct is large... and 
> if we were to use a class we don't get to inherit.

I suppose one could use delegates but it's still a pain because 
to setup and ends up being more terse than just going about it 
the standard way.