A Discussion of Tuple Syntax

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On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 17:22:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> What I'd like to know, is how all of these proposals address the
> fundamental differences between "symbol tuples" (compile-time 
> construct) and std.range.Tuple (runtime construct). As far as I 
> can tell, people are still confusing the two, and it's really 
> not helping. Before we solve this, any syntax suggestion seems 
> more like a mortician's work than a real solution.

As far as I can tell, when everyone talks about tuple syntax, 
they are talking about run-time tuples. That's definitely what 
I'm talking about whenever I mention tuple syntax, as I don't 
think it would be a good thing to use it for both run-time and 
compile-time tuples (and I don't really consider the latter 
tuples).

Bearophile has mentioned a couple times that we could use the 
tuple syntax for both, and bring about a unification of these two 
tuple types. I don't like this, as they're both very different 
entities, and don't really have any relation to each-other 
whatsoever.

I think the best course of action is to keep TypeTuples as is 
(and possibly provide a new name for them, underdocumenting or 
outright deprecating the old name), and introduce the new syntax 
for run-time tuples.

Speaking of new names for TypeTuple, I don't know if this was 
mentioned already, but what about "Variadic Lists"?