DIP54 : revamp of Phobos tuple types

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 09:55:34 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 19:06:27 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Have updated the DIP to include feedback from this thread : 
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP54
>>
>> It effectively means resorting back to both std.meta.pack and 
>> std.meta.list as a compromise.
>
> LGTM.
>
>> Hope to start working on it soon. Ironically, getting a D job 
>> has stripped me of almost all time spent on side D tasks so 
>> progress is very slow, sorry :(
>
> Perhaps you can delegate some tasks to other members of the 
> community. I vaguely remember other members working on similar 
> modules to std.meta.*, too (John Colvin?).

Yes, I am using an almost identical layout to what is proposed in 
this DIP.

The bulk of the work is done, but tests are thin on the ground. I 
have a whole bunch of changes that haven't been commited and 
pushed to github yet. I should be able to bring everything up to 
date over the weekend.
Also, I noticed I haven't attributed some work I stole from other 
peoples pull requests, so I'll fix that too.

There are a few enhancements to the language that would make a 
big difference, as well as some bugs that are holding me back.

In particular, if there was such a thing as "symbol opDispatch" 
that provided an alias to the symbol used after the . instead of 
a string, UFCS for templates would be workable without horrible 
leaky abstractions.