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 # Naming guidelines
 
 - Use `snake_case` for function, variable and type names
-- Naming usually optimizes for common prefix (see https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml/pull/302#discussion_r1243240963)
+- Naming usually optimizes for longest common prefix (see https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml/pull/302#discussion_r1243240963)
 
     ```cpp
     // not OK