Changing the name, 'Cells'

[fumitoh]

I've been tempted to change the name 'Cells' for quite some time. The original name was chosen by analogy with spreadsheet cells, but it has since become a misnomer. After exploring and rejecting several alternative names—such as 'Method,' 'Calc,' 'SmartFunc,' and 'Memoizer'—the most promising candidate at the moment is 'Functor,' a term historically used in C++ to mean a function object. Consequently, some API functions and methods, such as defcells, new_cells, and clear_cells, would be renamed. The old names would also remain available for quite a while.

[AB-Athene]

I like 'Cells', 'Functor' sounds scary

[fumitoh]

What do you mean by scary? Are you concerned about possible incompatibility issues related to the name change?

[alexeybaran]

When moving actuaries from Excel it is better to make Python and modelx sound easy. Functor sounds very scientific.
Cells is a good term as it reflects that it is part of the grid (of dependencies) and is clearly differentiated from "function".
Yes, there will be some compatibility issues

[bakerwy]

Functor sounds cool. But is there reason using functor instead of function? Because function sounds more intuitive.

[fumitoh]

Function could be a candidate. But It would be not clear in documentation whether "function" means a modelx function or Python function.