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  • In what way does adding a "business" prefix tell you "this is what I get, and what I expect"? Also, I don't quite understand what the combined "fooBar" signifies. Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 18:54
  • Tried to clear it up, the idea of the 'businessFoo" is that it would be a name that explains it's a business concept, application name, or maybe source of the concept: "windowsBar", "chromeFoo", "DateStringISO8601". (Finding a good term is proving difficult") Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 19:08
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    Ah, ok, now I get it. Unfortunately, in my case the terms also feature prominently in function names. Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 19:11
  • Addendum: I've also done the: ` externalApi.Method(businessObject.ToApiObject()) `; it's saved my sanity when I was tying 2 or 3 applications together which used the same, or similar names to describe different things: e.g. A Plan of Plans for customer contract plans... Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 19:17