Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

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Wed Jul 15 22:16:05 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 00:49:29 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 July 2015 at 21:15:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>>
>> What happened? Why are we replacing a crappy term with another 
>> crappy term?
>>
>
> Here's my interpretation of the current state of this as I read 
> this thread
> 1. "AliasSeq" is no good as evident from the first post that 
> started this thread
> 2. "AliasList" draws veto from decision makers due to list 
> semantics in C++
> 3. "AliasTuple" draws both support and disdain, but at least 
> there's some support.  Also, I volunteered to wordsmith the 
> documentation on this, and I found myself a little dumbstruck 
> yesterday trying to explain it.
> 4. "AliasSplat" uses a frivolous and slang term for the 
> asterisk operator so is hard to take seriously, and like the 
> other suggestions will require explanation.
> 5. "Arguments" isn't bad IMO, but it seems to draw disdain due 
> to the fact that the construct in question may or may not be 
> used for template arguments.

You forgot "Aliases", which also was suggested.



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