tupleof specification

[Bill Baxter]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:fpvjmp$4k7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> .tupleof is ill-specified in D1 and D2.  It does not mention:
>>
>> 1) What happens when it encounters anonymous nested structs and unions
>> 2) What happens when it encounters private or protected members
>>
>> Bug 1223 (http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1223) was reported 
>> last May.  It has not yet been resolved.  D2 "changed" the behavior of 
>> tupleof in regards to private/protected members (notice it's only 2 days 
>> after the comment Andrei made on this bug) but this change has still not 
>> been reflected in the spec.
>>
>> I request that the behavior in these two cases (and indeed, any other 
>> special cases that you can think of) be clarified in both the D1 and D2 
>> specs.  I also request that the bug in the bugzilla be addressed, since it 
>> was reported for D1 but was never addressed.  Either mark it as 
>> wontfix/invalid or backport the change from D2.
> 
> I mean, I know how important _file extensions_ are, but could I get some 
> kind of response on this? 

Ok.  I'll shut up already.  :)

Walter, if you were thinking to respond to another one of my inane posts 
about file extensions -- don't.  Respond to Jarret here instead.  Please.

--bb