Thoughts on possible tuple semantics

[Dicebot]

On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 14:27:01 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:03:12 +0100, Dicebot <public at dicebot.lv> 
> wrote:
>>>> Also you don't seem to cover mixed sequences which are 
>>>> essential to D templates.
>>>
>>> Theses are alias sequences.
>>
>> As I have already said, it is no less confusing to classify as 
>> alias sequence something that is not limited to aliases.
>
> I was thinking of it the other way round, as in .. It is not a 
> sequence of aliases, but an alias for a sequence of .. 
> expressions(?).  Perhaps calling it an "aliased sequence" makes 
> that clearer?
>
> R

Well, it falls into the same issue "named after what you can do 
with it" vs "named after what it is". The very meaning of word 
"alias" suggests that calling something "alias for X" is just 
adding naming indirection on top of X ;)