s/type tuple/template pack/g please

[Brad Anderson]

On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 18:45:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 8/21/13 11:44 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 18:26:42 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 8/21/13 11:21 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>>> 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".
>>>>>
>>>>> Destroy. I mean criticize.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrei
>>>>
>>>> There are a lot of good names for it: Template Pack, Type 
>>>> Sequence,
>>>> Template Argument List, Type List, etc. I think I like Type 
>>>> Sequence the
>>>> best but any will do.  All that really matters is getting 
>>>> Tuple out of
>>>> the name to clear up the confusion.
>>>
>>> We much more need to get "type" out of the name. Those aren't 
>>> types.
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Alright. I always found the Tuple part more confusing but I 
>> guess I'm in
>> the minority since three people all jumped on the "type" 
>> portion of my
>> comment at once.
>
> "Tuple" needs to go as well, although that entity does look 
> like a tuple in some respects.
>
> Andrei

Yeah, the name "tuple" isn't actually all that inaccurate.  The 
problem is more that it places too much load on the word for two 
very distinct things.