Should Wire be renamed Column?

[tomjaguarpaw]

Column would be a clearer name. Alternatively we could use the abbreviations Col or C.

[ocharles]

👍, Wire is a far too technical term (it only has meaning if you know that you got here from studying wiring diagrams).

[tomjaguarpaw]

Furthermore, the library doesn't especially resemble the wiring diagrams paper anymore!

[tomjaguarpaw]

@ocharles: C, Col or Column?

[ocharles]

I prefer Column.

[tomjaguarpaw]

I'm tempted to say that Column will make type signatures very long. My preference is Col, but I will wait for others to chime in.

[dbp]

I think I'd prefer Column as well. It is longer, but I think it's clearer, and IMO clarity wins over length. If things are truly too long and repeated, well, we have type aliases for that :)

But if not Column, then definitely Col. C seems like a mistake! Okay to define an alias in your own code, but not something that should be in a library.

[tomjaguarpaw]

OK, I'm happy to discard the C option. If no one else comes out in favour of Col then I'll go with Column.

[c-lewis]

As Daniel said, if someone finds their type signatures are getting
unwieldy, they can always create an alias.

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OK, I'm happy to discard the C option. If no one else comes out in favour
of Col then I'll go with Column.

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