Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

Deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 15 06:28:43 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 08:29:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 08:13:20 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 07:50:46 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> Good to see another bad name merged in master ^_^
>>
>> Yep, same feeling here....
>
> At this point, I think that it's simply a question of which bad 
> name we go with. None of them are particularly good, and 
> there's a lot of disagreement about almost all of them - and if 
> there's a lot of agreement, it's about how bad the name is, not 
> how good it is.
>
> I'd be very surprised to ever get real agreement on this. There 
> simply isn't a good name for it. And if Walter and Andrei like 
> AliasTuple, it's probably going to stick (and Andrei does seem 
> to like it; no idea about Walter).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Tuple is the only name where we have actual, factual feedback. 
Hanging in the d irc chan for years, it is apparent that calling 
this tuple confuse people. That is a fact.


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