Rename attribute selection to attribute lookup

roberth commented 1 year ago

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ExprSelect is a.b, and a.b or c (for metavariables a, b, c)

"Lookup" is less ambiguous than "select", and a more readily available term.

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"Get", which is ugly in natural language. How would you say "attribute lookup": "attribute getting"? You'd need more words to make it not suck.

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fricklerhandwerk commented 1 year ago

Triaged in Nix team meeting 2023-05-12:

@regnat: no strong opinion
@eriscon2314: could delegate to the docs team
@fricklerhandwerk will think about it, but low priority
- may be something for @NixOS/documentation-team to discuss briefly
@ericson2314: should we rename attribute to field?
@edolstra: should probably rename attribute set to dictionary, since it's not a set
- but large scale renames are problematic because all the documentation will refer to the old name

nixos-discourse commented 1 year ago

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