Is D a cult?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:49:01 +0300, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:

> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:42:48 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> grauzone wrote:
>>> Again, I can't understand. Does the compiler rely that tuples have the
>>> same byte layout as structs or function arguments? I thought the
>>> compiler could just copy all fields. And the backend can already return
>>> multiple values, since it can return structs and static arrays.
>>
>> A tuple and a struct composed of the same tuple should be
>> interchangeable.
>>
>> This doesn't work, because the alignment is different for different
>> circumstances.
>
> Where does this requirement come from? Is there some existing work on
> some other language that tells one to implement it this way? A struct can
> have all kinds of aligments. The developer is able to choose this in a
> systems programming language. Implicit conversion from a tuple type to a
> arbitrary struct sounds like a flaw. Why are so many implicit conversions
> needed?

I can't agree more.