Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

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Wed Jul 8 10:09:12 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 16:44:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 14:45:55 UTC, Xiaoxi wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 14:18:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> And renaming TypeTuple to Aliases is just going to increase 
>>> confusion.
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> It's basically just __VA_ARGS__ on steroids, thus 'Arguments' 
>> is good, there's precedence in C(Args).
>
> LOL. Then what about when you use it for _parameters_ rather 
> than arguments? Or when you use it areas that have _nothing_ to 
> do with functions - e.g.
>
> foreach(S; TypeTuple!(string, char[], wstring, dstring))
> {
>     //...
> }
>
> Naming it Arguments gives the impression that it's specifically 
> related to arguments, and that's just one small area that it 
> gets used in. And that's part of what's so hard about naming 
> it. It just does way too many things to name easily.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Not going to say if it is good or bad proposal, but your comment 
is not strictly relevant - template arguments are also arguments 
in D. It is exactly the term dlang.org grammar spec uses.


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