Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 21 01:24:14 PDT 2015


On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 14:58:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 08:18:46 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> On Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 01:05:20 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>>> Here is a survey of all suggested names, please vote so we 
>>> can end this with the best name...
>>>
>>> http://goo.gl/forms/qls1ZGDCho
>>
>> Small update, as of right now, there has been 45 responses to 
>> the survey, with AliasTuple in the lead.
>>
>> Top 3 average rankings:
>> AliasTuple   3.16
>> Aliases      2.82
>> AliasList    2.76
>
> Whatever it means, the answers there don't seem to jive with 
> the thread discussing it. In particular, AliasTuple probably 
> has the strongest reaction against it out of any of the choices 
> which have been seriously considered, based principly on all of 
> the problems that we've had in explaining to people what on 
> earth a TypeTuple is. The fact that Tuple is in the name has 
> caused quite a few problems. So, seeing it on the top is a bit 
> surprising. Though I wonder how many of the participants in the 
> thread have responded to that, since many seem to just be sick 
> of the discussion. More folks have responded to the survey 
> though than have participated in the thread though.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

I suspect that many people, myself included, didn't have anything 
meaningful to add to the thread but still voted. Personally I 
didn't post because I didn't have a better idea for a name and I 
thought the proposed ones were all suboptimal.

Atila




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