I later noticed that I do occasionally use data as a variable name. The scenario often seems to be passing along an opaque byte array. I suppose I could add a little flavor to it by way of receivedData or httpData or whatever context, but I don't know how to improve on that name when that particular method is not in charge of decoding that data.
I think that falls well into the exception category. byteStream or byteArray may be helpful for describing the nature of the data, but if there’s not a clear intent to the data then I suppose the next option is to make sure that name for it is as short lived as is reasonable.
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I later noticed that I do occasionally use
dataas a variable name. The scenario often seems to be passing along an opaque byte array. I suppose I could add a little flavor to it by way ofreceivedDataorhttpDataor whatever context, but I don't know how to improve on that name when that particular method is not in charge of decoding that data.I think that falls well into the exception category.
byteStreamorbyteArraymay be helpful for describing the nature of the data, but if there’s not a clear intent to the data then I suppose the next option is to make sure that name for it is as short lived as is reasonable.