Last call for AliasSeq

Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 28 05:33:33 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 11:50:09 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 10:16:21 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
> 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!

As already posted in the bike-shedding thread, I'm fine with 
'Aliases'.
Or AliasSeq.
Or everything that does not have the 'tuple' or 'type' part in it.
I'm so desperate I would be fine with 'Arguments'!

Please just proceed with something TOTALLY different for this 
concept

---
Paolo


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