The key of ambiguous language is to facilitate the receiver (listener/reader/reviewer)'s ability to guess. The base of our ability to guess is logic, and we only can track logic within 5 plus or minus 2 items of context. For example, logically a start requires an end. So if the start and end are all within 5-7 items or at least within a single glancable block, then we perceive a complete context. Whthin that context, we are very good at guessing the role of individual items -- they must belong to one of the stages -- initialization, development, further development, cleaning up, and exiting. Because of this increased guessablility, we can exercise more flexibility in the other elements such as the naming of each items.
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