language_fan wrote:
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:15:55 +0200, Yigal Chripun thusly wrote:
Now, wouldn't it be wonderful if D had provided real tuple support
without all the Tuple!() nonsense?
'D has full built-in tuple support' has been the answer each time I've
asked. It seems not to be advisable to ask more about this specific
feature since the language creators easily get annoyed when asked about
this. They see more value in reserving the syntax for the C style
sequencing operator which is rarely used. Also they have apparently
scientifically proven that the auto-flattening semantics of tuples
somehow works better than real product types, and have no intention to
make it an explicit controllable operation, which is also easily
implementable.
Not so, Andrei has said that he thinks auto-flattening was a bad idea.
And AFAIK, Walter doesn't disagree.
Andrei and I, and almost everyone else, have tried to persuade Walter to
remove the comma operator, but without success. But I doubt you'd be
able to use it for tuples, because x, y = foo(); already has meaning
in C and tuples would give it a different meaning. I'd LOVE to be proved
wrong.
It is very difficult to change Walter's mind about many things, but
despite what people say, it is not impossible.
