Tuple Types

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Tuple types are a family of structural types¹ for heterogeneous lists of other types.

The syntax for a tuple type is a parenthesized, comma-separated list of types.

A tuple type has a number of fields equal to the length of the list of types. This number of fields determines the arity of the tuple. A tuple with n fields is called an n-ary tuple. For example, a tuple with 2 fields is a 2-ary tuple.

Fields of tuples are named using increasing numeric names matching their position in the list of types. The first field is item0. The second field is item1. And so on. The type of each field is the type of the same position in the tuple's list of types.

For convenience and historical reasons, the tuple type with no fields (()) is often called unit or the unit type. Its one value is also called unit or the unit value.

Some examples of tuple types:

• () (also known as the unit or zero-sized type)
• (u8, u8)
• (bool, i32)
• (i32, bool) (different type from the previous example)

Values of this type are constructed using a tuple expression. Furthermore, various expressions will produce the unit value if there is no other meaningful value for it to evaluate to. Tuple fields can be accessed via an attribute expression.