Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

rsw0x via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 10 03:41:53 PDT 2015


On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 10:05:19 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 08:37:56 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> I personally think this auto-expanding argument is overrated. 
>> I don't have any particular expectation regarding 
>> auto-expansion towards the concept "tuple". Sure, it may be 
>> surprising, but that doesn't stop an auto expanding tuple from 
>> being a tuple, just like Perl arrays being auto-expanding 
>> doesn't stop them from being arrays.
>
> You know there a thing scientific do that is called experiment. 
> In this case the experiment of calling this a tuple has been 
> made, and it confused the hell out of everybody for years.
>
> You can argue against reality all you want. The fact is, people 
> expect tuples to not autoexpand.

the reason tuple was confusing is because it's already used by 
another completely distinct type.


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