On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 15:54:17 UTC, Deadalnix wrote:
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.
Thanks to the wonderful ambiguity of natural languages, it's quite likely that a number of people will think splat is a verb because it's spelled identically to the noun. Those people would expect it to splat things, such as arrays etc. Which it doesn't, it's actually functions closer to identity than splat.
Also newcomers looking for something which can handle undefined heterogeneous things, are not likely to search the documentation for Splat. Tuple is far likelier to be found.
