On 7/8/15 2:22 PM, ixid wrote:
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 17:53:05 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
It's plural. How to talk about Aliases? That was my main issue with
Arguments.
"use a TypeTuple" -> "use an Aliases"
-Steve
"use Aliases" or "use the Aliases".
I'm not arguing for Aliases but that seems like a non-problem. If
something more general is required then Terms or something like that.
It still doesn't read correctly.
I'll give you an example from
std.meta:https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/meta.d#L146
"Returns a typetuple created from TList with the first occurrence, if
any, of T removed."
Possible options:
"Returns Aliases created from TList with the first occurrence, if any,
of T removed."
"Returns the Aliases created from TList with the first occurrence, if
any, of T removed."
"Returns an instance of Aliases created from TList with the first
occurrence, if any, of T removed."
I don't like them. However, use AliasSeq:
"Returns an AliasSeq created from TList with the first occurrence, if
any, of T removed."
The difference is subtle, but definitely clearer and less awkward.
BTW, others have argued that typetuple above doesn't refer to the
TypeTuple type, but the actual typetuple concept as described in the
spec (a tuple of types). However, in this case, TList doesn't have to be
strictly types, so this is not correct. So this should be changed.
The more I think about this, I think AliasTuple is probably the best
answer. We have "type tuples" and "value tuples", "alias tuples" seems
like a natural fit.
-Steve
