Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 18 04:13:43 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 01:44:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 01:32:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> _Please_ no. It'll just make it extra confusing whether you're 
> talking about what was TypeTuple or just aliases in general. 
> That's why I've never liked the name Array for std.container. 
> You always have to be extra careful when talking about it to 
> make it clear what you mean, and if you're actually talking 
> instead of writing, it's that much worse. And honestly, I 
> wouldn't expect a type to have a name which was plural, and I'd 
> expect the fact that it's plural would just increase the 
> confusion. And TypeTuple, AliasSeq, whatever is already 
> confusing enough as a concept without naming it something that 
> adds confusion on its own.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Yup.


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