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/**
 * Templates that construct tuples of numeric values
 *
 * Copyright: Timur Gafarov 2011-2020.
 * License: $(LINK2 https://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt, Boost License 1.0).
 * Authors: Timur Gafarov
 */
module dlib.core.tuple;

/// Create a tuple
template Tuple(E...)
{
    alias Tuple = E;
}

/// Yields a tuple of integer literals from 0 to stop
template RangeTuple(int stop)
{
    static if (stop <= 0)
        alias RangeTuple = Tuple!();
    else
        alias RangeTuple = Tuple!(RangeTuple!(stop-1), stop-1);
}

/// Yields a tuple of integer literals from start to stop
template RangeTuple(int start, int stop)
{
    static if (stop <= start)
        alias RangeTuple = Tuple!();
    else
        alias RangeTuple = Tuple!(RangeTuple!(start, stop-1), stop-1);
}

/// Yields a tuple of integer literals from start to stop with defined step
template RangeTuple(int start, int stop, int step)
{
    static assert(step != 0, "RangeTuple: step must be != 0");

    static if (step > 0)
    {
        static if (stop <= start)
            alias RangeTuple = Tuple!();
        else
            alias RangeTuple = Tuple!(RangeTuple!(start, stop-step, step), stop-step);
    }
    else
    {
        static if (stop >= start)
            alias RangeTuple = Tuple!();
        else
            alias RangeTuple = Tuple!(RangeTuple!(start, stop-step, step), stop-step);
    }
}
