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Why does XBlock define a name field? #864

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@kdmccormick

Ever since the early days, the XBlock base class has defined a name field:

name = String(help="Short name for the block", scope=Scope.settings)

This is different than the display_name field which edx-platform expects.

Is this used anywhere? Can we delete it?

Related... can we elevate display_name up to the XBlock base class without breaking backwards compatibility?

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