Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/15/15 12:09 PM, "Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= <schuetzm at gmx.net>" 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 15:49:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/15/15 11:48 AM, Wyatt wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 15:28:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> These google searches returned no meaningful results:
>>>>
>>> Try:
>>> splat operator
>>
>> That doesn't come to mind when splat is used as a noun. --
>
> Yeah, "splat" as a name for an auto-expanding thingy would be a novelty.
> Ruby for instance doesn't have anything like that, it has a splat
> _operator_ (asterisk) to expand a normal array, or conversely, capture
> several arguments in one parameter.

So I'd say this is a strong argument against "splat". -- Andrei