s/type tuple/template pack/g please

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Wed Aug 21 12:19:35 PDT 2013


On 8/21/13 12:01 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 18:17:03 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> Personally, I like using "Seq" as the name for the constructor
>> template, as do a few other of the GitHub/NG regulars, so maybe
>> "(parameter/variadic/…) sequence" would be an alternative worth
>> discussing?
>
> "Seq" is nice too because it has no baggage that comes with terms like
> "type", "tuple", or "template".  It's its own thing which hasn't been
> used to mean anything but what people are proposing (at least in the
> context of D).
>
> I think I actually like "Seq" better than "parameter/variadic sequence"
> for this reason.  Neologism is a perfectly valid option (isn't that
> right, trie?).

"Seq" has the problem that it's not an actual word or phrase and as such 
is difficult to talk about.

Andrei


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