s/type tuple/template pack/g please

monarch_dodra monarchdodra at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 11:10:55 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 17:53:21 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> There's an inordinate amount of confusion around what we 
> currently call "type tuple" (embodied in std's TypeTuple). I've 
> been furious immediately as I got word that Walter called it 
> that way, and it hasn't failed to make everybody else feel the 
> same over the years.
>
> So: shall we use "template pack" going forward exclusively 
> whenever we refer to that stuff? That way we can unambiguously 
> use "tuple" for "value tuples, i.e. like mini-structs that 
> group values together".

"template pack" isn't really clearer to me than "type tuple", 
IMO: Both only mean what we want them to mean (Kind of like RAII).

If we want to be clearer/more accurate, then something along the 
lines of "variadic pack" or "variadic list" would be more 
descriptive.


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