On 07/08/2015 06:44 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 14:45:55 UTC, Xiaoxi wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 14:18:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
And renaming TypeTuple to Aliases is just going to increase confusion.
- Jonathan M Davis
It's basically just __VA_ARGS__ on steroids, thus 'Arguments' is good,
there's precedence in C(Args).
LOL. Then what about when you use it for _parameters_ rather than
arguments? Or when you use it areas that have _nothing_ to do with
functions - e.g.
foreach(S; TypeTuple!(string, char[], wstring, dstring))
{
//...
}
Naming it Arguments gives the impression that it's specifically related
to arguments, and that's just one small area that it gets used in. And
that's part of what's so hard about naming it. It just does way too many
things to name easily.
- Jonathan M Davis
I assume the rationale is that the thing you get is literally the
arguments to the template.
alias Asdf(T...)=T;
Asdf!(string,char[],wstring,dstring)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Arguments
It's the identity function on template argument lists. This is needed
because those do not have their own syntax.
