Last call for AliasSeq

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 01:52:34 UTC, Enamex wrote:
> On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 10:35:35 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> On Friday, 24 July 2015 at 08:51:04 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>>> Martin has just merged the rename of `TypeTuple` to 
>>> `AliasSeq` into the stable branch, which will be released 
>>> soon. If anyone wants to change the name again, please open a 
>>> PR immediately, this is the last chance.
>>
>> Here are the final results of the poll if any one cares...
>> AliasTuple		3.083333333
>> AliasList		2.85
>> Aliases			2.716666667
>> AliasSeq		2.55
>
> Why is the poll at odds with the supposed-to-be-final decision?

Because the decision is not going to be made based on a 
popularity contest, and many of the folks who have been 
discussing this have not voted in that poll. Also, there is no 
clear winner in the poll anyway. AliasTuple is slightly ahead, 
but remember that _5_ was the top, not 3. So, the ones at the 
"top" of the list are far from being universally liked.

AliasTuple in particular has serious issues with it from the 
perspective of teaching people what it is an how to use it, 
because it has Tuple in its name, and the construct in question 
is not actually a tuple (in addition to being easily confused 
with std.typecons.Tuple). This has been shown time and time again 
with TypeTuple.

On technical merit, AliasSeq is one of the better choices; it was 
what TypeTuple had been changed to prior to the recent, large 
discussion on it; and none of the new suggestions are better 
enough to win any kind of consensus. At this point, for it to be 
changed, Walter and Andrei need to step in and choose something 
else. Otherwise, it's just going to stay AliasSeq, and it will be 
final, because we're not changing it again after 2.068 goes out. 
But thus far, they haven't changed it and have let it stay as 
AliasSeq, and the window of time for them to change it is 
shrinking fast. Regardless, even if the decision were to be made 
based on the poll, it would be Walter and Andrei making that 
decision, because it is abundantly clear that the community is 
unable to come to a consensus on this.

- Jonathan M Davis