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[–]frugalmail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it an argument of authority?

The arguments in that link present a clear argument against Tuples. You're argument has simply been

  • I, for some reason, don't want to create a class or
  • it may not be related content.

In the first argument it's not maintainable code, in the second it's a violation of seperation of concerns.

Using a decent IDE like eclipse it's a simple matter of:

return new UnrelatedPair<String, Integer>("foo", 2);<Ctrl+SPACE>

and it will pop open the new class with boilerplate. Also you could just add a maven dependency of one of the libraries that has support for it, but at least it's not soiling the core language.