On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 13:43:47 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 13:39:25 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
I'm fine with any name but would like to point out that it's
probably essential that the new name allows for the
distinction between what we currently call type tuples and
expression/mixed tuples. The latter are not so important to
distinguish, but type tuples have the privilege of being able
to declare an expression tuple:
TypeTuple!(int, string) myExpressionTuple;
myExpressionTuple[0] = 42;
myExpressionTuple[1] = "foo";
// etc
One extra source of confusion is that "expression tuple" was
often used for TypeTuple!(42, "foo") ones, not for runtime
instances. Those two are very different in D. That is why I am
saying one name is not enough and some classification is needed.
That is in the doc : "A Tuple whose elements consist entirely of
types is called a TypeTuple. A Tuple whose elements consist
entirely of expressions is called an ExpressionTuple. "
http://dlang.org/template.html#TemplateTupleParameter
