Wait, what? What is AliasSeq?

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 17 13:56:22 PDT 2015


On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 01:54:31PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/7/2015 2:16 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >So I thought we were supposed to replace bad names with good names.
> >Template arguments are indexable, so "sequence" doesn't quite apply.
> >
> >What happened? Why are we replacing a crappy term with another crappy
> >term?
> 
> Should just be "Aliases". I recall that my naming of "setExt()" was
> universally panned for using an abbreviation. "Aliases" doesn't carry
> any baggage about how it might be accessed.

Wow, the bikeshedding truly never ends!


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