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titleUsing a single consistent naming convention makes it easier for many customers to learn Iguana

So imagine you read a book that was written in a combination of 5 languages. It might make for an intellectually challenging read curiosity, but would be difficult for most people to 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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titleWhy favour shorter names

This makes for code which is briefer and easier to read. There is more space for:

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titleWhy English?

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 .

Sorry cannot argue with history.

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titleWhy favour shorter names

This makes for code which is briefer and easier to read. There is more space for:

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and most of our customers pick English.

Lua itself uses English keywords. One has to pick a standard.

See Naming Convention.

See Using a table as a function argument

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