A Discussion of Tuple Syntax

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Mon Aug 19 14:27:53 PDT 2013


On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 21:16:43 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 19:24:32 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 08/19/2013 07:44 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> Well, OK, whatever they're supposed to be called. 
>>> Compiler-tuples, or
>>> expression tuples, or whatever. See, part of the problem is 
>>> that they
>>> just don't have any good name that correctly conveys what 
>>> they are.
>>>
>>
>> They are simply template argument lists.
>>
>> (http://wiki.dlang.org/The_D_Programming_Language/Seq)
>
> Nice short FAQ for one of the more confusing parts of D.  The 
> name "template argument list" clears things up quite a bit 
> actually (but is too long for a type name).  Is it your idea to 
> use Seq instead of TypeTuple?

Pretty heavy on the snark though :P


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