Why does XBlock define a `name` field?

[kdmccormick]

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

XBlock/xblock/core.py

Line 683 in 9d9c1c9

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?