Re:Ask HN: Does the use of Tuples in C# lead to poor code ma...
by WorldMaker on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:04PM
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C# has also supported type aliases for a while:
using MyTuple = Tuple<string, string, string>;
But that's of limited utility (you have to include it in every code file, for instance) and I don't recall the exact circumstances but I recall it being brittle the last time I used it heavily (it was something like the compiler would fail to compile things that should be fine due to it forgetting a type alias half-way through a file), but that was also several compiler versions ago.
using MyTuple = Tuple<string, string, string>;
But that's of limited utility (you have to include it in every code file, for instance) and I don't recall the exact circumstances but I recall it being brittle the last time I used it heavily (it was something like the compiler would fail to compile things that should be fine due to it forgetting a type alias half-way through a file), but that was also several compiler versions ago.