Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 8 10:23:47 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 17:09:14 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 16:44:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> Naming it Arguments gives the impression that it's 
>> specifically related to arguments, and that's just one small 
>> area that it gets used in. And that's part of what's so hard 
>> about naming it. It just does way too many things to name 
>> easily.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Not going to say if it is good or bad proposal, but your 
> comment is not strictly relevant - template arguments are also 
> arguments in D. It is exactly the term dlang.org grammar spec 
> uses.

Yes, but TypeTuple isn't just used for template arguments - or 
function arguments. In other circumstances, it's used for 
parameters or even for stuff that has nothing to do with either - 
e.g. in a foreach loop.

- Jonathan M Davis


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