On Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 06:32:15 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2015-07-07 23:16, 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?
How about "Bag" or "AliasBag"?
A "bag" is the same as a C++ multi-set.
Let's go over the common usage:
"list": finite ordered source of entities
"tuple": in math it is a fixed length list of values, in
programming it usually has semantics close to a record/struct
with numbers instead of field names and structural typing.
"sequence": infinite or finite list of values of the same
kind/type
"bag": unordered list
"set": bag with unique entities
"array": run-time indexable bag
