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Somewhat related to above, but has there ever been discussion of variadic generics in Kotlin? Even if it were done, say, only for inline functions, the same way that `reified` is. I think that would be super useful. That could allow simple tuples, and non-neutered implementations of things like zip, for example.

That feels like it would be another step in the C++-template direction from `inline reified`. I like C++ and I wouldn't mind variadic generics in Kotlin, but if there would appear a different way of doing meta-programming in the Kotlin language (and not in a Kotlin compiler plugin) I wouldn't mind that either.

I agree that C++ tends to abuse templates for metaprogramming, I just don't agree that a variadic generic function is metaprogramming :slightly_smiling_face: It's just a generic function. Just that it happens to be variadically generic.

:slightly_smiling_face: OK, I agree with you that variadic generics isn't metaprogramming. Though I would _like_ to have metaprogramming in Kotlin, and I wouldn't mind abusing variadic generics for that purpose :smiling_imp:, being an evil C++-coder :wink:

as a fellow C++ coder, I know what you mean :wink: