I think the difficulty of making the right decisions without this lost information is well-observed. I wrote a short post in roughly this idea space last year:

I think the difficulty of making the right decisions without this lost information is well-observed. I wrote a short post in roughly this idea space last year: https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_functions_and_why_functions/ https://t-ravis.com/post/doc/what_functions_and_why_function... It feels like the same thread you're describing, but I guess it's pulling on the other end of it. It's thinking about how to name things in a way that makes it easier to see that the implementations might diverge later, and simplify actually doing so (by preserving more of this intentional context).