Name of 1-Tuple Data Type

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I quite like Solo.

Simon

From: Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Theodore Lief Gannon
Sent: 18 January 2018 02:42
To: Ryan Reich <ryan.reich at gmail.com>
Cc: Haskell Libraries <Libraries at haskell.org>
Subject: Re: Name of 1-Tuple Data Type

I've seen Only in the wild, and it's probably my favorite of the initial suggestions for the same reasons as Ryan. Mono is my second pick from that list.

Id is very clean, but I could see pedagogical issues arising from name confusion. Sing(le(ton)) is a terrible idea for the same reason.

Venturing my own paint swatch: Solo fits in nicely with the established size-specific names (pair, triple, etc.) and has all the good traits: short, self-explanatory, nothing with a confusingly similar name (that I know of).

On Jan 17, 2018 4:35 PM, "Ryan Reich" <ryan.reich at gmail.com<mailto:ryan.reich at gmail.com>> wrote:
Only has two virtues I can see easily: it's short (shorter than almost all the others), and it has the same feel as Maybe.

There is also Id, the name of the mathematical function that this type (and corresponding data) constructor is. Less pithy but even less intrusive.

On Jan 17, 2018 15:47, "Andrew Martin" <andrew.thaddeus at gmail.com<mailto:andrew.thaddeus at gmail.com>> 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<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhackage.haskell.org%2Fpackage%2FOnly-0.1%2Fdocs%2FData-Tuple-Only.html&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C3db602b14f26474965ff08d55e1d285f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636518401685292292&sdata=fMbHCFU%2Br3JHwmI8a4QgHD26fhoclfklE3xA0O6tCE4%3D&reserved=0>)
* OneTuple (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/OneTuple-0.2.1/docs/Data-Tuple-OneTuple.html<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhackage.haskell.org%2Fpackage%2FOneTuple-0.2.1%2Fdocs%2FData-Tuple-OneTuple.html&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C3db602b14f26474965ff08d55e1d285f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636518401685292292&sdata=rRLW8KJoKT5IQ5Y6s3kMrUOiUGk6xa77zb5VvGuAfGw%3D&reserved=0>)
* 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.

--
-Andrew Thaddeus Martin

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