Get index of a tuple element’s type?

by 
template <class T, class Tuple>
struct Index;

template <class T, class... Types>
struct Index<T, std::tuple<T, Types...>> {
    static const std::size_t value = 0;
};

template <class T, class U, class... Types>
struct Index<T, std::tuple<U, Types...>> {
    static const std::size_t value = 1 + Index<T, std::tuple<Types...>>::value;
};

See it live at Coliru.

This implementation returns the index of the first occurrence of a given type. Asking for the index of a type that is not in the tuple results in a compile error (and a fairly ugly one at that).

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