Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 19:19:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/9/2015 12:56 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> Several of which actually use linked list for list and 
>> probably shouldn't
>> provide random access.
>
> Yes. Consider:
>
>     for (int i = 0; i < list.length; ++i)
>           sum += list[i];
>
> If indexing was allowed on a list, this would seem like 
> perfectly reasonable code.

In many languages that is perfectly reasonable because list does 
not equal linked list. Its almost as if a list is an abstract 
concept and does not mean any one definite data structure, hmmm 
who wuda thunk that...