In the age of AliasSeq, how to refer to template tuple parameters?

Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 2 06:07:15 PDT 2015


On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 12:40:02 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 02-Oct-2015 15:32, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Friday, 2 October 2015 at 12:31:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> On a whim, I went to [1], which I had previously referenced 
>>> in the
>>> book, and found that all of the content that was previously 
>>> there has
>>> been replaced by a couple of sentences pointing to 
>>> std.typecons and to
>>> [2]. It also says we should no longer refer
>>
>> [1] http://dlang.org/tuple.html
>> [2] http://dlang.org/ctarguments.html
>
> Article used terminology that was then changed sadly nobody 
> felt strong enough to rewrite the article to use AliasSeq (the 
> e-hm actual new name).

I see. Well, it does mention AliasSeq. While that may work for 
the std.meta template, I just don't see how that's even a 
remotely useful name for T...

It really was much easier to explain the tuple mess before these 
changes were made.


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