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rename `Control.Placeholder` to `Develop.Placeholder` #5

Closed MangoIV closed 4 months ago

MangoIV commented 7 months ago

While agree, that Debug is not the correct namespace for these, I also think Control is not. Perhaps Develop is a good idea (as proposed in the discussion in the CLC proposal)

ekmett commented 7 months ago

My major concern with Develop is that at least unimplemented seems intended to stick around long term. So if the purpose of a Develop namespace is to place transitory things that will be removed when you are done with your task, then this also seems off.

ekmett commented 7 months ago

The justification for Control to me is based on the traditional split between Control and Data, this isn't actually a data structure you manipulate, but it does affect the control flow of your program (by stopping). A lesser justification that I don't really buy is that by making them actual named exceptions they allow what is in theory resumable usable control flow.

MangoIV commented 7 months ago

Makes sense, yeah I didn’t really think about unimplemented vs todo, if there’s only todo, it makes much more sense.