On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 19:10:39 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 18:45:56 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
Interestingly, it goes on by saying:
An n-tuple is defined inductively using the construction
of an ordered pair.
Although not stated explicitly, this implies (a kind of) auto
expanding!
=> Fits more than perfectly :-P
No one who has ever seriously used tuples in any programming
language I've ever heard of would expect tuples to auto expand.
You're right. And after all of the discussion, I like the name
AliasSeq more.
The fact that it sometimes elicits a 'WTF' reaction is perfect;
it's a D thing (or a 'not normally exposed to the programmer
thing') so you need to look up what it does. Using Tuple, List,
or Array in the name is unhelpful, as those names are used a lot
already.
