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so true, names in different contexts have different needs. For internal stuff comprehension is king. I see this show up in front end and backend stuff frequently, especially in the microcosm of a console app in python where argparser can specify the `dest`, or internal name of a command line option. All my bool options get dest=is_xxx prefixes. Using more verbose names under dest is good too.


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