On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 20:11:16 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
Sequence fit the bill. I don't mind using another name that fit the bill as well. Nobody came up with that name yet.
I find that naming objects is a key part of programming, and to that end I own one copy of Roget's International Thesaurus (Crowell, 4th edition -- a quality thesaurus, not a cheap junk book) at work, and another copy that I keep at home. It's the best reference I know of to jog your thinking out of a rut when you need some synonym that is just beyond your mental reach.
Looking up the concept in this case yields words like "series", "chain", and "train". There are lots more choices, but those are some of the simple, short ones. So we could have AliasSeries or SerialAliases, AliasChain, etc. I'm not saying I'm in favor of any of these in particular, or that I'm at all familiar with the underlying idea we're trying to name here; all I'm proposing is a process for generating alternative names.
