I imagine whatever name is chosen will have a # at the end.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:25 AM, Andreas Abel
-1.
Don't grap any of these nice names for that obscure feature. Take some ugly name.
On 18.01.2018 00:46, Andrew Martin wrote:
Required background information: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14673
GHC has a one-tuple (both a boxed variant and an unboxed variant). The unboxed variant currently must be fully applied whenever it is used. This is in stark contrast to all the other n-tuples (n > 1). It stems entirely from an issue of syntax. The solution decided on is to provide a normal prefix name for the 1-tuple. The name that GHC uses internally for this type is `Unit#` (there is also a boxed variant Unit). However, in the haskell community, the word "unit" already refers to the nullary tuple, not the unary tuple. So, we're bikeshedding the name.
Here are some possible options:
* Unary (as in unary tuple) * Single (as in single, double, triple) * Singleton (as is singleton, doubleton, tripleton) * Only (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/Only-0.1/docs/Data-Tuple-Only.html) * OneTuple (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/OneTuple-0.2.1/docs/Data-Tuple-OneTuple....) * Uni (means "one" in latin or greek or something like that) * Mono (means "one" in latin or greek or something like that)
I would appreciate any feedback on the suggestions I provided or any additional suggestions for the name. If you have concerns about the feature itself, comment on the GHC Trac ticket. I'd prefer to keep this thread focused on just the problem of coming up with a name.
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