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key | password | Better to be consistent with the use of key If we can |
organization | Organization | Small case |
space | ConfluenceSpace | Space is shorter and has less redundant words in front of it. |
user | username | This gives the same information and is shorter. |
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So imagine you read a book that was written in a combination of 5 languages. It might make for an intellectually |
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curiosity, but |
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it would greatly reduce the number of people who could understand. With Iguana we want our platform to be easily accessible expressing the code using a consistent simple ‘language’ is important. It’s about reducing Bottlenecks for our users to understand how to use Iguana. |
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This makes for code which is briefer and easier to read. There is more space for: |
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Unfortunately this does mean we have to pick a language - we pick English since we are based in North America and this is the defacto global language |
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Sorry cannot argue with history.
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and most of our customers pick English. Lua itself uses English keywords. One has to pick a standard. |
See Naming conventionsConvention.
See Using a table as a function argument
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