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daemin on Jan 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Named tuple for C++

So you effectively make an enum out of the names in the tuple. That way you can even use the enum to use as the index into the get<> function calls.

cbsmith on Jan 3, 2016 [–]

Yes, that is one way of looking at it, though enums don't use string constants.

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