So I thought we were supposed to replace bad names with good names. Template arguments are indexable, so "sequence" doesn't quite apply.

What happened? Why are we replacing a crappy term with another crappy term?


Andrei

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".

 — David

On 07/07/2015 11:16 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Template arguments are indexable, so "sequence" doesn't quite apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence#Indexing

On Tuesday, 7 July 2015 at 21:20:54 UTC, 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".
>
>  — David

List? I thought we had settled on:
std.meta.Arguments

On 7/7/15 5:32 PM, Daniel N wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 July 2015 at 21:20:54 UTC, 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".
>>
>
> List? I thought we had settled on:
> std.meta.Arguments

That's what AliasSeq replaced. Arguments was not a very good name IMO. See my post on it here: http://forum.dlang.org/post/mmhfs1$2jc5$1@digitalmars.com

I'm unsure if Andrei is referring to Arguments or TypeTuple when he says "bad names".

-Steve

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.

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.
>
> What happened? Why are we replacing a crappy term with another crappy term?
>
>
> Andrei

AliasSeq?? What is that even supposed to mean? Are we just throwing random words together?

On 7/7/15 5:20 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".

And rightly so. It's just that "sequence" doesn't seem better. -- Andrei

On 7/7/15 5:24 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 11:16 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Template arguments are indexable, so "sequence" doesn't quite apply.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence#Indexing

Hmm, fair enough. Sequential as opposed to associative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_container_(C%2B%2B) also comes to mind.

Then, at least let's use the whole darn word. Doesn't seem like the short form is helping a lot here.


Andrei

On 7/7/15 7:29 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/7/15 5:24 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 07/07/2015 11:16 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Template arguments are indexable, so "sequence" doesn't quite apply.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence#Indexing
>
> Hmm, fair enough. Sequential as opposed to associative.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_container_(C%2B%2B) also comes to
> mind.
>
> Then, at least let's use the whole darn word. Doesn't seem like the
> short form is helping a lot here.
>
>
> Andrei

In fact thinking of it AliasArray seems most descriptive. -- Andrei