Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 14 14:25:56 PDT 2015


On 7/14/15 5:24 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/14/15 5:13 PM, Mike wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 14 July 2015 at 14:06:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> STL's "sequential containers" do not have serial dependence on items.
>>> There, "sequential" is meant as a converse of "associative".
>>
>> Indeed, but the term "sequence" has existed long before the STL authors
>> (mis)used it.  Actually, 3 of the 5 main "sequence containers" *are*
>> sequences.  The other 2, vector (which is another name that has always
>> bothered me) and array, are really best described as a random-access
>> containers, but the authors probably didn't want to split hairs and make
>> another category.
>
> All this is more proof it comes down to a judgment call. Yeah, vector is
> probably a bit off,

Sorry for the incomplete thought - easy to figure :o). -- Andrei



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