On Friday, 27 June 2014 at 22:01:21 UTC, Mason McGill wrote:
I like DIP54 and I think the work on fixing tuples is awesome,
but I have 1 nit-picky question: why is it called
"TemplateArgumentList" when it's not always used as template
arguments?
void func(string, string) { }
TypeTuple!(string, string) var;
var[0] = "I'm nobody's ";
var[1] = "template argument!";
f(var);
Why not a name that emphasizes the entity's semantics, like
"StaticList"/"ExpandingList"/"StaticTuple"/"ExpandingTuple"?
Because it is defined by template argument list and has exactly
the same semantics as one. And semantics are unique and obscure
enough that no other name can express it precisely.
'StaticList' is what you may have wanted it to be but not what it
is.
