<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The proposal draft <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/290" class="">on Github</a> is now live.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 4, 2016, at 12:13 AM, Developer <<a href="mailto:devteam.codafi@gmail.com" class="">devteam.codafi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve been contemplating this idea for a while now, mostly because I think it’s a very important feature, but also because I can’t find a single example of a programming language getting it completely right. In Swift, the motif of tuples throughout the language would lead one to think that they have some kind of special status in the language. Yet, tuples are an opaque concept exposed by the compiler to the end user with no opportunity for extension. Languages that have tried to expose tuples to their users for extension have done so in less than ideal ways (see Tuple1-Tuple22 <a href="https://github.com/scala/scala/blob/2.12.x/src/library/scala/Tuple22.scala" class="">Scala</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/libraries/ghc-prim/GHC/Tuple.hs" class="">Haskell</a>’s hard limit on tuples, <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.tuple.html" class="">Rust</a>’s limitations for std::tuple), yet each implementation has something to offer a possible Swift implementation. I see only one course of action that will bring us extensible tuples in a manner that is compatible with Swift and its overall design philosophy. To that end, I have drawn up a <a href="https://gist.github.com/CodaFi/18b70633b03e19161402ae3579c072b7" class="">draft proposal</a> for generic tuple extensions that I will submit to swift-evolution shortly. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~Robert Widmann<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>