[fpc-devel] RFC: Support for new type "tuple" v0.1

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sat Jan 26 18:52:44 CET 2013


In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> up with a draft for the Tuple type which is thought by many people to be 
> a better alternative to "for-in-index".
> 
> Please note the following points:
> * This is not the final specification for Tuples and thus open to 
> discussion (there are still some issues with this draft that need to be 
> solved)
> * I won't implement this feature myself (at least not in the near 
> future) as I have other topics on my list (most importantly generics 
> once type helpers are commited), so Alexander is free to give the task 
> for implementation to his student.

In a quick read, I cannot see any limitations to the type used for
a tuple-element except that it behaves like "file of..."

So that would mean a record type (or other non variant compatible type)
would qualify?



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