I dun a DIP, possibly the best DIP ever

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Sat May 9 15:54:19 UTC 2020


On 25.04.20 23:21, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/25/2020 4:25 AM, Manu wrote:
>> It's still un-fun to type AliasSeq!(), and I've never liked how it 
>> reads or looks... but your patch is certainly welcome.
> 
> It was originally TypeTuple!(), and still is in druntime. (Yes, the PR 
> recognizes TypeTuple, too, as it recognizes the pattern, not the 
> identifier.) I don't know why it was changed to AliasSeq, which just 
> grates on me as not indicating at all what it is. Probably Tuple would 
> be the best name.

Tuple does not indicate at all what it is. Tuples usually don't auto-expand.


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