Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?
Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 17 18:35:01 PDT 2015
On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 20:54:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/7/2015 2:16 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> So I thought we were supposed to replace bad names with good
>> names. Template
>> arguments are indexable, so "sequence" doesn't quite apply.
>>
>> What happened? Why are we replacing a crappy term with another
>> crappy term?
>
> Should just be "Aliases". I recall that my naming of "setExt()"
> was universally panned for using an abbreviation. "Aliases"
> doesn't carry any baggage about how it might be accessed.
Then you have the confusion about whether you're talking about
the replacement of TypeTuple or just aliases in general -
especially if verbal conversation. AliasSeq won't be confused
with anything.
- Jonathan M Davis
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