Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

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Wed Jul 8 10:12:19 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 16:29:25 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> I reckon Collect would be a good name. It describes what you're 
> doing: collecting some things together. Is also fits nicely 
> with the currently private but hugely useful std.typetuple.Pack.
>
>
> Collect: collect things together to one symbol, but they're not 
> bound together, they'll auto-expand if they can.
>
> Pack: pack things together, they only come apart explicitly 
> (via .expand).
>
>
> The best thing about it? It doesn't say anything misleading 
> about the contents. It also doesn't say anything confusing 
> about runtime vs compile-time.
>
> Speaking as someone who's written ridiculous numbers of lines 
> of code using TypeTuple and various incarnations of Pack, 
> Collect fits my way of thinking.

Let's choose a name the cool kids will like and name it OmniSplat.


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