diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index a026fe509..ffc98137d 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ bool gpt_params_find_arg(int argc, char ** argv, const std::string & arg, gpt_pa
         return true;
     }
     if (arg == "--no-special") {
-        params.ctrl_token_no_out = true;
+        params.no_special = true;
         return true;
     }
     if (arg == "--embedding") {
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index f7556cfec..87e771ca1 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ struct gpt_params {
     bool use_color         = false; // use color to distinguish generations and inputs
     bool interactive       = false; // interactive mode
     bool interactive_specials = false; // whether to allow special tokens from user, during interactive mode
-    bool ctrl_token_no_out = false; // disable control token output
+    bool no_special        = false; // disable control token output
     bool conversation      = false; // conversation mode (does not print special tokens and suffix/prefix)
     bool chatml            = false; // chatml mode (used for models trained on chatml syntax)
     bool prompt_cache_all  = false; // save user input and generations to prompt cache
diff --git a/examples/main/main.cpp b/examples/main/main.cpp
index d5288a5e6..fc5486181 100644
--- a/examples/main/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/main/main.cpp
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
                 if (!llama_token_is_control_token(llama_get_model(ctx), id)) {
                     // Stream Output Token To Standard Output
                     fprintf(stdout, "%s", token_str.c_str());
-                } else if (!params.ctrl_token_no_out) {
+                } else if (!params.no_special) {
 #ifndef _MSC_VER
                     if (control_token_file_descriptor_is_attached) {
                         // Stream Control Token To Special Token Output. Useful for debugging control token behaviour