Feedback suggestion on "datas" APIs for 1.0 perhaps

[ulidtko]

I didn't research who'd chosen these names, and it doesn't really matter that much (compared to anyone's favorite atrocity) — but it just pains me to see this in a high-quality open-source Haskell library:

"Data" is plural already — singular is datum.

... I well understand, fixing this would entail a breaking change, deprecations and major version bump.

Perhaps something to consider for version 1.0.0.0 ?

[ysangkok]

I think for many people the current naming might be more intelligible. Data is used all over the place in Haskell, for any amount, even if it is zero bits. Consider data Void. We don't require records with one field to be annotated as datum instead. One could argue for the name sendBinaryDataList but I think it's fairly common to expect the s suffix for the list variant of a function. Would be interesting to search for function signatures that differ only in the list-ness of one argument.