Builtin regex (Was: How to complex switch?)

[bearophile]

Timon Gehr:

> Tuple literals would indeed be very nice.

I have asked for tuple unpacking syntax (and other things like some support from the type system). Tuple literals are less needed.


> (having syntactic sugar for phobos functionality in the language
> seems like a very bad design to me,

I don't see it as a bad design. Why do you see it as a bad thing?


> However, tuple literals break the comma operator...

If something like a banana bracket syntax (|...|) is required (or some other kind of thing), then I think it doesn't clash with C usages of comma operator.


> What would be the type of such a tuple literal? (T,T,T,...)?

I presume Tuple!(int, int, int)


> I don't expect something like this to be implemented soon though.

Stuff like this requires months of thinking, and just few days to be implemented by Walter :-)

Bye,
bearophile