G_ARRAY should be called G_LIST

I've been mildly annoyed about this for years. We have three kinds of
context in perl - void context, scalar context and list context. The
three constants for it are called G_VOID, G_SCALAR and G_ARRAY.

Yes, G_ARRAY.

I propose to add a new G_LIST constant with the same value as the
current G_ARRAY, and perform a simple s/G_ARRAY/G_LIST/ across our
codebase to fix up this little cognitive roadbump.

I imagine adding a back-compat constant to ppport.h and similar should
be relatively straightforward.

Any objections?


(I don't plan to address `wantarray` right now, because that is visible
to perl code and would have far-wider consequences for renaming it)

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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