"Inline" is an adjective. I like nounifying adjectives, verbing nouns etc. as much as anyone, but I don't think it works well in this case -- I would very much prefer not to say that a function returns an "inline of 3 integers"!
Good names also work well in contexts where there is no code voice
.
(Additionally, remember that we intend to use Inline
as the standard naming prefix for data structure variants with inline storage:
InlineArray<Capacity, Element>
,InlineSet<Capacity, Element>
,InlineDeque<Capacity, Element>
,InlineDictionary<Capacity, Key, Value>
,InlineString<Capacity>
(?!)- etc. etc.
The vector type we're proposing is not a member of this family, and it isn't much related to any of these. Reusing their prefix as a standalone name would not be helpful, I think.)