Re: Tuples?

[Ori Bernstein <ori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 May 2015 12:28:53 -0500
Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just noticed the language manual mentions tuple literals; however, their type is never specified. Are they even fully implemented:

Yep, and in use all over the place. For example, iterating over the utf8
codepoints in a string:

    while str.len != 0
        (chr, str) = std.striter(str)
        use(chr)
    ;;

or command line opt parsing:

    for arg in parsed.args
        match arg
        | ('O', arg):   use(arg)
        | _:            etc
        ;;
    ;;


Types are specified as '(t0, t1, ..., tN)', for example:

    var x : (int, char, byte[:])

    x = (0xf00, 'c', "str")

> 
> Also:
> - The home page still says user-defined traits aren't implemented
> - In example 5.2 of the manual, a function named "intmax" is defined. Later on, it is referred to as "max".
> - In 6.2, the last "const" is misspelled.

I should get that part of the website into (public) git so that I can accept pull
requests...

I've been pretty bad about keeping docs up to date: Writing code is so much
more fun than writing docs.

-- 
Ori Bernstein <ori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>