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Use 'package name' more consistently in docs #270

Closed lukewagner closed 8 months ago

lukewagner commented 8 months ago

This PR updates the terminology to match #263 (no change in behavior).

Prior to #263, there was a sortof haphazard mix of "name" and "id" used in the context of imports/exports referring to interfaces and implementations, which created some ambiguity because there was also this totally independent pre-existing use of the term "identifier" in both WAT and WIT. #263 tried to remove this inconsistency and simply call everything an "X name" if it was used inside an importname or exportname (so: "plain name", "interface name", etc), which was more obvious to do once everything was inside the "name" string. This PR ties up some loose ends that folks in SIG-Registry pointed out today. This isn't the only possible regular terminology, though; happy to discuss alternatives.