What does El mean?

[louispan]

My googling hasn't been able to find out what does 'El' means.
Eg 'ElField' in

Vinyl/Data/Vinyl/Derived.hs

Line 18 in 524a89c

data ElField (field :: (Symbol, *)) where

and Elf in

Vinyl/tests/Intro.lhs

Line 47 in 524a89c

> type family ElF (f :: Fields) :: * where

[acowley]

In those uses, El is short for Element as in having records that may or may not contain these fields as elements.

[louispan]

That makes sense. Thanks for answering so quickly!

[jonsterling]

@acowley Oh, I thought you knew! El actually refers in this case to head of the Canaanite pantheon, the father of Yahweh…

[acowley]

Oh, neat! Are you going to add this meaning explanation of Vinyl to the wiki?