# Mixed tuple destructuring

**URL:** <https://forums.swift.org/t/mixed-tuple-destructuring/47231>\
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**Created:** [April 7, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/mixed-tuple-destructuring/47231 "2021-04-07T21:50:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/mixed-tuple-destructuring/47231/4 "2021-04-08T02:10:49Z")

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since you already defined a general syntax-level transformation for this, i doubt there is a fundamental reason why this can’t be done. i’ve been implementing a lot of language extensions recently using the new [package plugins feature](https://forums.swift.org/t/returned-for-revision-se-0303-package-manager-extensible-build-tools/46640/7), so i’m pretty confident someone could create a syntax-level language extension to do just that, where the tool in question would “compile” this down to standard swift.

i just think that 9 times out of 10, this kind of problem is better solved with an appropriate in-place mutating method.

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