On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 22:52:11 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 09:01:33 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Monday, 27 July 2015 at 02:14:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
AliasTuple in particular has serious issues with it from the
perspective of teaching people what it is an how to use it,
because it has Tuple in its name,
People keep claiming that, but have never posted any evidence.
We know that _TypeTuple_ had issues, but for all we know, the
problem was the "Type" part, not the "Tuple" part.
We have various reports that are consistent and confirm this is
an issue. At this point, this is a repeatable experiment, not
an anecdote anymore. Ignoring repeatable experiment puts you in
the tinfoil hat section of the population. You don't want to be
there.
Well, your post kind of proves my point. You've stated this
several times, and you mentioned that people had problems, but as
evidence you only mentioned some obscure irc communications that
- for all I know - no one except you has ever seen. Now, I could
simply believe you there (after all you're a competent person),
but... that's not very scientific at all. If you say that these
are repeatable experiments, with a representative sample of the
programming community (or even just beginners), with consistent
outcomes, then I prefer to see evidence for these claims before I
believe them. I'm therefore not ignoring experiments, I have
doubts about the validity of said experiments.
It is not ignored. It is simply that alternative proposal also
have issues, and many of them have issues that are worse. No
proposal was significantly better so that it reached any kind
of consensus.
No your personal favorite did not either.
I don't have a strong personal favourite, I just have a strong
anti-favourite :-)
