Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

deadalnix via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jul 18 13:26:37 PDT 2015


On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 20:59:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:54:31PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d 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.
>
> Wow, the bikeshedding truly never ends!
>
>
> T

+1 , can we stop inserting coins in that machine every time it 
reach some kind of stable point (especially when this stable 
point is the same twice in a row ?)


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