But as part of it, I've been staring at all these places that are using the Link Type, which is the underlying basis of Multiple Choice. Link is *the* most important Type in Querki -- it's a reference to a specific Thing, basically the equivalent of a "pointer" in most programming languages. (Multiple Choice is implemented as a Link Property to a particular Model, whose Instances are the options to choose from. That's very powerful when you need the power, but like I said, a pain in the tuchus to build one; time for a proper wizard that hides the details of what's going on for the common cases.)
Anyway, I am suddenly realizing that "Link" is also a terrible name. Specifically, while it is *technically* quite accurate, that accuracy is mostly irrelevant: the pointer gets auto-dereferenced in almost all circumstances, so the fact that it *is* a pointer is rarely useful to the end user. Mostly, it's taking brain space for no good purpose -- as far as the user is concerned, it's just a Thing. So I should probably change the name of the Type.
I can't just call it "Thing" -- that's already the base Model for the entire Querki universe, and is quite central -- but I'm tempted to use "Something". That's vague, but that's kind of the point: when you're referring to a value of type Something, it can literally be any non-primitive value in Querki. (Including Properties, Types, People and so on.) In practice, you can restrict the Model that a given Property can point to, and we'll eventually enhance the functions to preserve this typing in the code -- basically implicit generics -- but conceptually, it's just "Something".
The vagueness kinda bothers me, but I don't have a better idea yet, and it seems to relate in an appropriate way to the concept of "Thing" -- a value of type "Something" contains one or more Things. Opinions?
