DIP54 : revamp of Phobos tuple types

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/29/13 7:42 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 December 2013 at 15:01:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I think a duo `TemplateArgumentList` (auto-expansion) and
>> `TemplateArgumentPack` (no auto-expansion) in the same module is the
>> ticket. It also makes for a wonderful opportunity to explain the
>> distinction in the documentation and recommend idioms for each.
>
> I think we should use this chance to rectify the capitalization of the
> name. As the result is not exclusively a list of types, current
> conventions state that the name should be lowerCamelCase.

Fine.

> I also think it should be shorter, because a) it's a fundamental, and
> thus very commonly used template, and b) code that manipulates lists are
> functional in nature which results in long lines that are also hard to
> split up because sometimes they are in template constraints or function
> template parameter lists etc.

No. This is the wrong place to go for short names.

> I like the name `list`.

Define your own alias that way and let the long self-explanatory be.


Andrei