Short list with things to finish for D2

[Lutger]

Chad J wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> grauzone wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, you should fix the auto-flattening of tuples before it's too
>>> late. I think everyone agrees that auto-flattening is a bad idea, and
>>> that tuples should be nestable. Flattening can be done manually with
>>> an unary operator.
>>>
>>> (Introducing sane tuples (e.g. unify type and value tuples, sane and
>>> short syntax, and all that) can wait for later if it must. Introducing
>>> these can be downwards compatible, I hope.)
>> 
>> Non-flattening should be on the list but I am very afraid the solution
>> would take a long time to design, implement, and debug. I must discuss
>> this with Walter.
>> 
>> Andrei
> 
> Might I suggest a daring stop-gap:  kill tuples altogether.
> 
> Then we can implement them later correctly and it won't break backwards
> compatibility.
> 
> Ideally it isn't an all-or-nothing proposition either.  Maybe we can
> just kill the parts that are bad.  Like disallow tuples-of-tuples, but
> allow tuples that are already flat.
> 
> - Chad

By the time you would have restored phobos to about 50% of it's usefulness 
you could have implemented non-flattening tuples ten times over. I would 
switch back to D1 :)