How to declare methods returning tuples? For tuple variables we could say we require `var`, however, that's not really an option for method return values.

What about

public int,string functionReturningATuple();

or

public (int,int,int) functionReturniningATuple();

The syntax using brackets would have the advantage that returning a one-tuple would be straightforward.

(Just checking: To have an advantage over strings, we talk heterogenous tuples, right?)

An alternative possibility is to use Tuple<int,string>. This would probably reduce syntax complexity and possible ambiguity.

(Yes, this is about heterogeneous tuples.)

Yes, that would work as well, although I'd prefer a lowercase T.

public tuple<int,string,bool> function( tuple<int,string> inArg )

The Dova branch seems to have preliminary support for that, albeit with a different syntax. Is this still on-topic for the gobject backend?

See also http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Dec-23.html

Yes, it would still be possible to implement this for the GObject backend using the pointer-based generics, i.e., a tuple would just be an array of pointers with a fixed size and type safety.

Pushing this to 2.0, as syntax enhancements are totally out-of-scope for 1.x.

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