On Tuesday, 7 July 2015 at 21:15:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
So I thought we were supposed to replace bad names with good
names. Template arguments are indexable, so "sequence" doesn't
quite apply.
What happened? Why are we replacing a crappy term with another
crappy term?
Andrei
I reckon Collect would be a good name. It describes what you're
doing: collecting some things together. Is also fits nicely with
the currently private but hugely useful std.typetuple.Pack.
Collect: collect things together to one symbol, but they're not
bound together, they'll auto-expand if they can.
Pack: pack things together, they only come apart explicitly (via
.expand).
The best thing about it? It doesn't say anything misleading about
the contents. It also doesn't say anything confusing about
runtime vs compile-time.
Speaking as someone who's written ridiculous numbers of lines of
code using TypeTuple and various incarnations of Pack, Collect
fits my way of thinking.
