Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

Deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 16 10:10:56 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 05:44:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Oh, here is one more term you can consider:
>
> "AliasPack"
>
> In Python "splatting" is called "unpacking" ("splat" refers to 
> the visual impression of the "*" operator and is inappropriate).
>
> C++ also have related use of the word "pack":
>
> http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/parameter_pack
>
> So in C++ all of the terms "list", "sequence" and "pack" can be 
> used about parameter lists… but "list" is the general term: 
> argument list, parameter list, initializer list etc…

Pack was my first choice, but it did seem to stick amongst the 
community when I asked around. I'd be happy with pack.


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