• Erik Baklund (7/46) May 15 2007 Thank you Bill,

Erik Baklund <ebaklund hotmail.com> writes:

Bill Baxter Wrote:

 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


Thank you Bill,

Good to know that I am on the right track with respect to tuples.
I was running of the posted stable version 1.010 at 
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.zip.
Based on your feedback, I will try the 1.014.

Kind regards,
Erik