• Erik Baklund (28/28) May 14 2007 Hi,
• Bill Baxter (4/37) May 14 2007 I think your DMD is too old. Works fine here with v1.014. There were a...

Erik Baklund <ebaklund hotmail.com> writes:

Hi,

I am trying to understand tuples.
Does anybody know why line 11 below fail?
Is it conceptually wrong or is it a compiler glitch?

Erik

 1	import std.stdio;
 2
 3
 4	template Tuple1(E...) 
 5	{ 
 6		alias E Tuple1; // Works
 7	}	
 8
 9	template Tuple2(E...) 
10	{ 
11		alias E[0..length] Tuple2;  // Sematicly the same (?) but fails
12	}	
13
14	int main (char[][] args)
15	{
16		writefln(Tuple1!(3, 7L, 6.8));   
17		writefln(Tuple2!(3, 7L, 6.8));   
18
19		return 0;
20	}


a.d(11): tuple E is used as a type
a.d(11): Error: can only slice tuple types, not void
a.d(17): template instance a.Tuple2!(3,7L,6.8) error instantiating

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Erik Baklund wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I am trying to understand tuples.
 Does anybody know why line 11 below fail?
 Is it conceptually wrong or is it a compiler glitch?
 
 Erik
 
  1	import std.stdio;
  2
  3
  4	template Tuple1(E...) 
  5	{ 
  6		alias E Tuple1; // Works
  7	}	
  8
  9	template Tuple2(E...) 
 10	{ 
 11		alias E[0..length] Tuple2;  // Sematicly the same (?) but fails
 12	}	
 13
 14	int main (char[][] args)
 15	{
 16		writefln(Tuple1!(3, 7L, 6.8));   
 17		writefln(Tuple2!(3, 7L, 6.8));   
 18
 19		return 0;
 20	}
 
 
 a.d(11): tuple E is used as a type
 a.d(11): Error: can only slice tuple types, not void
 a.d(17): template instance a.Tuple2!(3,7L,6.8) error instantiating

I think your DMD is too old.  Works fine here with v1.014.  There were a 
number of problems like that in older versions of dmd.

--bb