On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 15:28:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/15/15 9:32 AM, Deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 11:49:46 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 7/15/15 3:50 AM, Dicebot wrote:
Good to see another bad name merged in master ^_^
So now we're at AliasTuple? -- Andrei
Please go for splat. It turns out it is used by functional
guy, in
various scripting languages and in the compiler backend
communities.
The thing we are trying to name is a splat.
These google searches returned no meaningful results:
splat
splat data structure
splat type
splat computer science
I did find a few relevant results with:
splat functional languages
splat scripting languages
Let's not inflate each new name idea to alleged popularity it
doesn't really enjoy.
I'm not inflating popularity (you'll have hard time quoting me
doing fo, so please don't. Words have precise meaning).
This is not a popular word because this is not a popular
construct to begin with. Yet this word is used to describe what
we have here.
A newcomer would have either no expectation of what this
construct is because he doesn't know the word (still better than
tuple or list that come with the wrong expectation) or know the
word and know what to expect.
Also, I don't have any veto, but if I had one, tuple would get
it. I've
been hanging around for a while and seen so many being
confused by d
tuples that persisting in that direction would be a religious
decision.
For this coming release we've opened the naming to a somewhat
democratic process. Walter and my plan was to let everyone
discuss, then approve the consensus. We jokingly/worriedly
remarked that all the cries "but we have consensus on a
different name!" when there existed a perception of names being
imposed will instantly go away. And so it did.
We won't be able to make progress if ten folks have eleven
ideas about what's needed. People, choose AliasSeq, AliasTuple,
or whatever the heck most of us agree upon, but let's just
choose once and for good. There will be no turning back.
Andrei
That how I ended up with seq in the first place. I went to talk
to everybody and sequence was what came up the most while not
having people as opposed to it as list.
What the majority come up with is different from everyone's first
choice (seq isn't even my first choice). On the other hand, the
recent change looks like a coup.
