Some Naming Ideas

[ox-harris]

Naming must be right for concepts to be properly conveyed! But naming things is hard! And for the Reactive Contexts Proposal, the choice of conventions for a new approach to reactivity is an especially delicate area; every convention now already means something across the countless different approaches to the subject!

So far, we've made a few iterations...

1. We had called this the Subscript Functions Proposal, but for many with a React, SolidJS, Vue, (and similar) background, Subscript Functions tended to equate to a useEffect()/createEffect()/watchEffect() callback. But since the whole idea of Subscript Functions is rather about an entire reactive context, a more descriptive name clicked: Reactive Contexts.

Now, we're thinking further...

1. We currently use the double star function (function** fn() {}) syntax for Subscript Functions, but early feedback had pointed to possible cognitive glitch with Generator Functions (function* fn() {}).
2. We currently call Subscript's reactivity API .thread(), but it seems we can do better, if we'd just think further 🤨.

Comments are open for thoughtful inputs.