On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 14:00:29 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 13:26:48 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 12:33:35 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 11:50:09 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 July 2015 at 10:16:21 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
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Sorry, but this is unhelpful. All you are saying here is that "TypeTuple" is bad. Yes, but we already know that. Everyone agrees on that.

The real question is: _What exactly_ is the problem with TypeTuple? The "Type" part of the name? The "Tuple" part? The combination? Maybe it's not the name at all, but the concept, or only some part of its behaviour?

Nothing in your post gives us a clue which kind of name would be better. In particular, it doesn't show that `AliasSeq` is any better than `TypeTuple`. So we're changing it from a bad name to one that could be even worse, for all we know.

It seems you and deadalnix actually have useful evidence that can answer these questions, but neither of you posted them. Please do!

As already posted in the bike-shedding thread, I'm fine with 'Aliases'.
Or AliasSeq.
Or everything that does not have the 'tuple' or 'type' part in it.
I'm so desperate I would be fine with 'Arguments'!

Please just proceed with something TOTALLY different for this concept

Please reread my post, and then look at your answer again. I asked for evidence, and you posted your opinion.

Again, that's not "my opinion", these are facts, collected everyday in my working room, and I'm just reporting them.

You wrote "I'm fine with ..." and "Please just proceed with something TOTALLY different", and not much else. How is this anything more than opinion? It is probably based on facts, but where is the evidence for these facts?


The problem lays in the "Tuple" word, and in the "Type" word, so just avoid them completely.

This is already a conclusion you drew from the experiences in your company. But we have no way of knowing how well these conclusions match reality. I don't understand why it's so difficult just to recount a few of your experiences. I already gave a few examples how this could look:

http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]

Then everyone can judge for themselves whether your conclusions are justified. Given that deadalnix declared this a "repeatable experiment", I don't think this is asking too much.

And really, I'm genuinely interested in that. I don't keep asking for it just to annoy everyone. And if you can't share that information because it involves business secrets, then please just say so.


It is up to you, D developers, to take care of our experiences, as we must teach D, or just ignore them.

We're trying, but you don't share the experiences. You just tell us that you want something changed. But that's like going to a doctor and asking him to operate on you, instead of telling him where you're hurting and giving him the information to decide whether you need surgery at all.

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