Name for unary unboxed one-tuple

[Olivier S.]

Hello,

I propose "single" (Single#), as in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple#Names_for_tuples_of_specific_lengths

I think it makes a bit more sense than "solo".

Olivier



2018-04-25 10:28 GMT+02:00 Simon Peyton Jones via Libraries <
libraries at haskell.org>:

> Dear Libraries Committee
>
> Some time ago Andrew Martin asked you
> <https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2018-January/028419.html>
> what the name of the unary unboxed one-tuple type and data constructor
> should be.  The thread ran for a while, but you never came to a conclusion.
>
> Can we nail this one?   You’ll see on Trac #14673
> <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14673#comment:19> that chessai
> wants me to decide 😊.  But it should really be you.
>
> To me, there seems to be something of a consensus around Solo#.
>
> Simon
>
> PS: actually I think Andrew may have addressed libraries@ rather than
> core-libraries-committee@ by mistake.
>
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