s/type tuple/template pack/g please

Meta jared771 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 11:36:03 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 18:26:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> We much more need to get "type" out of the name. Those aren't 
> types.

I think this is part of the problem. Nobody can agree on what 
they should be called because it's so hard to classify them. 
They're not types, they're not values, they're this weird 
in-between thing that can be either one, or the other, or both. 
Therefore anything containing Type or Value in the name will not 
describe exactly what this thing is. Neither will Symbol, nor 
Expression, as it can contain both of those again, but not 
exclusively. We may as well call it by some name that is 
completely unrelated to what it can contain, as it can contain 
pretty much *everything*. How about KitchenSinkquence?


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