WN-0009 lens: instead of view:

[mtoy-googly-moogly]

Lens is the better word

There has been a long history of discussion about what the thing which looks a little bit like a query, but is attached to a source is called. In 4.0 we stopped calling them query:, and decided to use view:, but the
suggestion was floated at that time for the word lens.

That suggestion though dismissed at the time, with trailing refinements, the word lens is starting to feel more correct.

1. It identifies itself as a cousin of a view, as a thing you use when looking at a thing.
2. It also implies correctly, that like in photography, that you can create a powerful complex lens by combining lenses.
3. And like turtle it is a new word which suggests there are new things to learn here.

Proposed Process

• lens: is enabled as an experimental alternative to view:
• Discussion happens as people experiment with the idea.
• If approved, then view: will continue to be accepted, as per our promise to not break code,
  However all docs and examples would refer to the thing-inside-a-source as a lens.

[mtoy-googly-moogly]

Rejected, closed.