Sergey Gromov, el 1 de abril a las 06:08 me escribiste: > >>>> I'm putting together a blog post about a possible design of first-class > >>>> tuples in D. Hope it won't take too long. > >>> What does "first-class" mean? > >> > >> First-class values, like, native, with built-in compiler support. > > > > A tuple is a parameterized type, not a value. And first-class doesn't > > mean with built-in compiler support. > > Probably I've mis-used the first-class thing here.
First class object, according to Wikipedia[1], means, among other things, that is "being expressible as an anonymous literal value". Since in D there is no way to define new literals in library code (until macros are implemented, I hope =), the only way to add tuple literals that I know of is adding built-in compiler support. Then assuming, as discussed in this thread, that you'll propose tuples to have literal values in your blog post, I don't think you mis-used the term here =) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_object -- Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you nervy, irritable, depressed, tired of life. Keep it up. -- Monty Python
