<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I think this thread derailed quite a bit — it might have even been a good thing that some discussion accidentally went off-list ;-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally, I think it's nice if tuples and structs would converge more, so that either struct is seen as an extension of the tuple-concept, or tuple is considered to be an (restricted) anonymous struct.</div><div class="">E.g.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: #ba2da2" class="">struct</span> StructPoint {</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="color: #ba2da2" class="">let</span> x: <span style="color: #703daa" class="">Float</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="color: #ba2da2" class="">let</span> y: <span style="color: #703daa" class="">Float</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">}</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: #ba2da2" class="">typealias</span> TuplePoint = (x: <span style="color: #703daa" class="">Float</span>, y: <span style="color: #703daa" class="">Float</span>)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">would more or less have the same abilities (allowing extensions and protocol-conformance).</div><div class="">Constructors for tuples would afaics be easy, and maybe it would even be possible to initialize some structs from tuple-literals.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>