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On 22/10/13 09:15, Thomas Spatzier wrote:
> BTW, the convention of properties being input and attributes being output,
> i.e. that subtle distinction between properties and attributes is not
> really intuitive, at least not to me as non-native speaker, because I used
> to use both words as synonyms.

As a native speaker, I can confidently state that it's not intuitive to 
anyone ;)

We unfortunately inherited these names from the Properties section and 
the Fn::GetAtt function in cfn templates. It's even worse than that, 
because there's a whole category of... uh... things (DependsOn, 
DeletionPolicy, &c.) that don't even have a name - I always have to 
resist the urge to call them 'attributes' too.

- ZB