[Second review] SE-0453: Vector, a fixed size array

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Just adding some more possibly poorly informed fuel to the fire, I was wondering about what properties a fixed array type would have, and how the names suggested so far fit...

  • ordered - rules out names like Bunch, Batch, Bag, Clump, Cluster, Lot etc
  • fixed size - rules out names like List that suggest something that supports adding or removing items, or Elements, Values and many collective nouns that suggest their size is ephemeral
  • homogenous - rules out Tuple, Row
  • describes a collection with no particular use case - rules out Batch, Buffer
  • describes a collection with no particular element type - possibly rules out Vector, which is generally thought of as having numeric elements
  • describes a collection of potentially unrelated things - rules out *Vector, which often describes a single thing, or Series, Group, Grouping, Cluster and possibly Run which all suggest a relationship between the members
  • concrete type - rules out Elements, Values which feel more like protocols
  • eager, not lazy - not sure this rules anything out
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