Module Renaming: GHC.Core.Op

[Sylvain Henry]

Hi Andreas,

"Op" stands for "Operation" but it's not very obvious (ironically when I 
started this renaming work one of the motivation was to avoid ambiguous 
acronyms... failed).

The idea was to separate Core types from Core 
transformations/analyses/passes. I couldn't find something better then 
"Operation" to sum up the latter category but I concede it's not very good.

But perhaps we should do the opposite as we're doing in GHC.Tc: put all 
the Core types in GHC.Core.Types and move everything operation from 
GHC.Core.Op to GHC.Core?

Cheers,
Sylvain


On 03/04/2020 22:26, Andreas Klebinger wrote:
> Hello devs,
>
> While I looked at the renaming a bit when proposed I only just realized
> we seem to be using Op as a short name for optimize.
>
> I find this very unintuitive. Can we spare another letter to make this
> GHC.Core.Opt instead?
>
> We use opt pretty much everywhere else in GHC already.
>
> Cheers
> Andreas
>
>
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