On 7/8/2015 2:00 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 July 2015 at 22:22:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/7/2015 2:20 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
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.
Apparently Walter was opposed to using List, as that would somehow imply "linked
list".
I opposed it because lists are not indexable, and tuples are.
Linked lists are not indexable, but the term list doesn't necessarily imply that
it's a linked list.
It does to me, and in common programming usage "list" is often said instead of
"linked list".
As for Seq, it's kind of ugly, but if understand that it's Sequence, I think
that that fits well enough. Personally, I'd prefer List over Seq, but if you're
vetoing List, then I don't know what else we're going to go with. _Nothing_ fits
perfectly. TypeTuple/AliasSeq/Whatever is just too unique and too much of a
hodgepodge for any name to really well.
Which is why I simply picked the name Arguments. The s suffix means plural, and
doesn't give any preconceived notion about what kind of collection it is. It's a
convention I've been using in the dmd source for some time now, and have found
it to be natural and pleasing.
