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Add uniquely named type aliases for each Vector type to `Data.Vector.Generic`

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by inspecting the Data.Vector.Generic module and the existing Vector type modules to inventory the Vector types and their current names. Determine the alias naming set from the issue's goal, then verify that each intended type is available through Data.Vector.Generic without the separate qualified imports.

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Description

This would let people more easily write code dealing with multiple Vector types without needing to do a qualified import from a different module for each type, just to get the type in scope. Some of my code has 7 lines of Vector imports just to bring different types into scope. Having unique alias for each in Data.Vector.Generic would solve that issue

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