On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 09:13:27 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 08:59:15 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
Yeah. Every name sucks. Alias seems to solve the first half of
the name reasonably well, but nothing that anyone has come up
with really solves the second half.
[...]
Array (as Andrei has suggested) is already a very overloaded
term in D, and it implies a runtime data structure, which this
isn't. Certainly, when folks think of arrays, they're not going
to think of anything like TypeTuple/AliasSeq.
List is by far the most generic, but it doesn't imply
indexability, so Walter doesn't like - though Seq doesn't imply
indexability either, so if that's his complaint, I don't see
how it makes much differences whether we go with List or Seq.
They seem pretty interchangeable to me.
[...]
- Jonathan M Davis
Perhaps in such case we are going to invent new word? How about a
kind of portmoneu word? For example tree + heap => treap. And we
can have alias+list => aliast. No one have such word before an no
impure association.
