Last call for AliasSeq

Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 28 04:56:26 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 11:50:09 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> Sorry, but this is unhelpful. All you are saying here is that 
> "TypeTuple" is bad. Yes, but we already know that. Everyone 
> agrees on that.
>
> The real question is: _What exactly_ is the problem with 
> TypeTuple? The "Type" part of the name? The "Tuple" part? The 
> combination? Maybe it's not the name at all, but the concept, 
> or only some part of its behaviour?
>
> Nothing in your post gives us a clue which kind of name would 
> be better. In particular, it doesn't show that `AliasSeq` is 
> any better than `TypeTuple`. So we're changing it from a bad 
> name to one that could be even worse, for all we know.
>
> It seems you and deadalnix actually have useful evidence that 
> can answer these questions, but neither of you posted them. 
> Please do!

Honestly when I first was learning D, the Type part of TypeTuple 
was the part messed me up. I had a rough idea what a tuple was 
though never need to use one, so the Tuple part seemed to make 
sense to me, but the Type part always confused the crap out of me.


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