Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 02:58:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/8/2015 7:22 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 00:11:17 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Which is why I simply picked the name Arguments. The s suffix 
>>> means plural,
>>> and doesn't give any preconceived notion about what kind of 
>>> collection it is.
>>> It's a convention I've been using in the dmd source for some 
>>> time now, and
>>> have found it to be natural and pleasing.
>>
>> Instead, it gives the idea that they're used specifically for 
>> arguments, which
>> they aren't. They get used for a variety of things. Also, the 
>> term Arguments is
>> going to be really confusing - just like talking about 
>> std.container.Array gets
>> confusing, because the term array is already used for other 
>> stuff, and it's
>> never clear what folks are talking about unless they get 
>> specific. At least when
>> you use the term TypeTuple, everyone knows what you mean, even 
>> if it's a sucky
>> name. Going with something like Arguments or Parameters or 
>> Aliases is just going
>> to breed confusion.
>
> What about the 's' suffix?

It might work in a situation where the main word is clearly 
unique, but when you're talking about something like Argument or 
Alias, adding an s on the end does not help at all. It's far too 
easy to confuse it with other concepts in the language that have 
the same name, whereas putting something like List on the end 
wouldn't have that problem - e.g. no one is going to confuse 
AliasList for anything else, but if we had Aliases, it would be 
really easy to think that someone was referring to aliases like 
this

alias foo = bar;

and misunderstand what they were talking about - especially in 
verbal conversations.

- Jonathan M Davis