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Improvements to purposeful names #561

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Expand Up @@ -3666,10 +3666,10 @@ For example, "A user may wish to adjust their preferences".

Name things for what they do, not how they do it.

Names that reflect the purpose of their subject
Names that reflect a purpose
are more likely to be future-proof.
[[#removing-features|Removing APIs from the web is difficult]],
so names need to outlast details.
so names need to outlast any implementation detail.

In particular,
names should avoid the use of
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