On 07/16/2015 03:45 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 06:33:00 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-07-15 23:44, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>
>>> It should instead be acknowledged that there /should/ be no difference
>>> in what three things can be passed to X(T...) and X(alias a, alias b,
>>> alias c). The X(T...) if(T.length==k) pattern is ridiculous.
>>
>> I completely agree.
>
> Walter has agreed at DConf that this (i.e. alias not accepting basic
> types) should be fixed.
>
>   — David

Ok, thanks! I have updated https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9029 from enhancement request to bug report. (It should be noted that there were many other reports of the same issue.)

On 07/16/2015 07:35 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang@gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 05:28:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> std::forward_list
>
> Forget that one, that actually would be a single linked list… :P And in
> C++ you also have "std::integer_sequence" for compile time parameters.
>
> But I think "sequence" implies that everything has the same type...
>

That common "type" is 'alias'. :-)

On 07/16/2015 07:50 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 17:39:13 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> Yes, me. ;)
>
> (I should note that this is mainly because I'd really rather not have
> "Tuple" in the name because of first-hand experience in teaching
> beginners both on IRC and in person. And AliasSeq seems like the most
> likely candidate for this right now. I personally like Seq quite a bit
> too, but I'd rather not join that bikeshedding debate. —David)

Indeed. I will just write one of the following lines.

import std.meta:Seq=AliasSeq;
alias Seq(T...)=T;

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 21:44:13 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 07/16/2015 07:35 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang@gmail.com>" wrote:
[...]
>> But I think "sequence" implies that everything has the same type...
>>
>
> That common "type" is 'alias'. :-)

*cringe*

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 15:50:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/15/15 8:49 PM, Mike wrote:
>> 1. "AliasSeq" is no good as evident from the first post that started
>> this thread
>
> I am egging my face for starting this. Can we please return to AliasSeq? -- Andrei

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3498

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 23:54:30 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 15:50:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/15/15 8:49 PM, Mike wrote:
>>> 1. "AliasSeq" is no good as evident from the first post that started
>>> this thread
>>
>> I am egging my face for starting this. Can we please return to AliasSeq? -- Andrei
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3498

Well this was 214 replies of wasted time...

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:08:41AM +0000, Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 23:54:30 UTC, Mike wrote:
> >On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 15:50:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>On 7/15/15 8:49 PM, Mike wrote:
> >>>1. "AliasSeq" is no good as evident from the first post that started this thread
> >>
> >>I am egging my face for starting this. Can we please return to AliasSeq?  -- Andrei
> >
> >https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3498
> 
> Well this was 214 replies of wasted time...

Doesn't that describe a disturbingly large number of threads on this forum? ;-)


T

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On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 00:15:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Doesn't that describe a disturbingly large number of threads on this forum? ;-)
>
>
> T

Yes...... yes it does......

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 23:54:30 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 15:50:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 7/15/15 8:49 PM, Mike wrote:
>>> 1. "AliasSeq" is no good as evident from the first post that started
>>> this thread
>>
>> I am egging my face for starting this. Can we please return to AliasSeq? -- Andrei
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3498

Please don't cry, there are so many other bad names in the eco-system already. Nobody will notice… unless they have a CS degree.

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 15:50:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/15/15 8:49 PM, Mike wrote:
>> 1. "AliasSeq" is no good as evident from the first post that started
>> this thread
>
> I am egging my face for starting this. Can we please return to AliasSeq? -- Andrei

I'm good with that. As said, not my #1 choice, but good enough.