Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

Zoadian via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 21 10:55:41 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 21 July 2015 at 16:54:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 04:06:11PM +0000, Zoadian via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 21 July 2015 at 06:49:10 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> >Some of the proposals do not even make any sense. Come on, 
>> >all people that got into this know how newcomer react to the 
>> >Tuple name noticed the same reaction. Yet, there is a large 
>> >crow of idiots (sorry if you are in that crowd, on that one 
>> >you ARE an idiot) that will send that proposal in again and 
>> >again. Anyone that proposed that name at this point should 
>> >only be laughed at, as it is clearly the manifestation of 
>> >someone that have not deal first hand with the problems of 
>> >the historical name and is serving as a living example of 
>> >Dunning Kruger.
>> 
>> i get that TypeTuple is confusing as it is not _limited_ to 
>> types, but why is it not a tuple?
>
> Because, among other things, it auto-expands.
>
>
> T

I agree that auto-expansion is a bit unexpected (documentation 
does not even mention it...). But by that logic it's not a 
'Sequence', 'List' or 'Pack' either.

Can't we just call it Unpack!() then?




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