How it works...

Tuples are structs, and therefore value types that are created locally. You, therefore, do not have to worry about using and assigning Tuples on-the-fly or that it creating a lot of allocations. Their contents are merely copied when passed. Tuples are mutable and the elements are publicly scoped mutable fields. Using the code example in this recipe, I can, therefore, do the following:

returnTuple = (returnTuple.ave + 15, returnTuple.sCount - 1);

C# 7.0 is allowing me to first update the average value (shifting the average up) and then decrementing the count field. Tuples are a very powerful feature of C# 7.0, and it will be of great benefit to many developers when implemented it correctly.