In the age of AliasSeq, how to refer to template tuple parameters?
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Thu Oct 1 04:28:12 PDT 2015
On Thursday, 1 October 2015 at 11:23:51 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 October 2015 at 09:43:10 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> Do you want to refer to `T...` as a syntax feature or actual
>> arguments? Former is called "template tuple parameter" as you
>> correctly linked indeed, but for latter there is
>> http://dlang.org/template.html#TemplateArgumentList
>
> Both. I'm hesitant to use Template Tuple Parameter until I can
> know for sure that's what they will continue to be called.
>
> "template argument list" seems like it could be confusing.
> Typically, a function argument list refers to all the arguments
> passed to the function. Given multiple template parameters with
> a T... at the end, I would expect template argument list to
> refer to all of them, not just the T...
Naturally, a slice of argument list is still an argument list
(just smaller one) ;)
But on general topic - no, there is no clear and non-confusing
terminology on this topic and there have never been.
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