>>Who cares!? Serious devs care. I was once at a software conference where Bjarne Stroustrup was givnig some presentations, and in the after-session questions

>>Who cares!? Serious devs care. I was once at a software conference where Bjarne Stroustrup was givnig some presentations, and in the after-session questions, I thought I'd ask about something that had been bugging me about software design in general — I'd found myself spending what I thought might be excessive time to designing naming systems for the projects I worked on, and I wondered what he thought about spending time on naming conventions. With no hesitation, he said "Not at all, naming is very important", and very useful to get right up front, even for solo projects, as good clear naming helps speed the entire building and maintenance. So, yes, both "acquire" and "take_ownership" are relatively synonymous, but one will clearly be better and more consistent with the other in the context of your naming system. And this will matter to at least some serious devs. (But YMMV; if you have tried it a couple times and found it doesn't help you a bit, then you probably shouldn't spend more time on it)