On 8/19/13 11:54 AM, Meta wrote:
Realistically, Andrei, how amenable are you and Walter to adding tuple literal/packing&unpacking/pattern matching syntax to D, be it Tuple, TypeTuple, whatever? I don't recall either of you commenting much in the two other discussion threads linked. We can discuss this all day, but it what are the actual chances of you agreeing to such a large change in the language?
We'd be fools to reject a valuable addition to the language. That being said, there's no broad agreement on what's needed and what's to be added. Furthermore, most discussions are disproportionally focused on syntax (as opposed to semantics) and fall for syntactic cutesies instead of simple and robust library support. That in my experience is a bad omen. Now _that_ being said, if and when a gem comes about, we hope to have the insight to see it.
Andrei
