Re: [w3c/browser-payment-api] Should show() be renamed? (#127)

@sideshowbarker,

> Even if that is a possibility, from that it does not follow that the method ought to be renamed.

We don't have any users of this API yet, rather we're still in the design phase. That suggests to me that picking something that is even just marginally better is a good idea. We don't have to settle for "fine" just yet.

> ...and so “show” is simply shorthand for “present something to the user”

I think another word can convey the necessary shorthand without the drawbacks stated in this thread. For example, `start`, which can mean "start the payment request flow", which may or may not include presenting something to the user. All that matters is the caller of the API knows that they have fully prepared the payment request and they are now ready to ask the user agent to start doing something with it.

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