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cperciva
on April 6, 2010
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The world's two worst variable names
I generally go with
buf
for a buffer containing unstructured data. It seems a bit more logical, although I'm not really sure why.
khafra
on April 6, 2010
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It's more informative. "buf" gives you a few more bits of information about the source and purpose of the data than "data" does.
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