Subject matter experts tend to be much more precise in their wording. E.g. distinguishing between file and compilation unit in C.
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The Matter protocol is excellent for puns.
"Does it Matter? It doesn't Matter."
I'm designing a programming language and trying to decide the type of `let x = 1;`. Should it be Unit or Int?
Advantage of Int: really convenient when evaluating snippets in a REPL.
Advantage of Unit: It's much less confusing when type inference runs on an incomplete function.
I'm never sure what to name my remotes in git. I tend to use 'mine' so I can add other forks later, but sometimes I use 'gh' or the traditional 'origin'.
What do others use?