On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 08:29:52 UTC, Mike wrote:
On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 07:50:46 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Good to see another bad name merged in master ^_^
Was there a good name suggested that wasn't vetoed by Walter or
Andrei?
For me it was absolutely clear that picking a good name is
impossible even through the previous discussion (~1 year ago)
because existing semantics is a mess and breaking it is out of
question. Thus more realistic criteria is name consistency with
some bit of fact correctness.
This was how original (Meta)List was chosen - being as bad as any
other, it matched terms used by official compiler spec :
http://dlang.org/template.html#TemplateParameterList
http://dlang.org/template.html#TemplateArgumentList (and related
docs)
It is mostly irrelevant though (as long as it is not
fundamentally misleading) - the whole issue is not about picking
a single name but major cleanup sweeps through dlang.org and
Phobos ensuring it is all on same terms and any possible
abmiguity is clearly explained.
