Re: Vocabulary Question

From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Vocabulary Question
Date	2011-11-11 07:21 -0800
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Roedy Green wrote:
>> If you read the entire contents of a file into RAM for processing, is
>> there a simple word to describe the copy of it in RAM?  Something you
>> would use consistently in variable names to represent the original
>> String? 
> 
> how about contents or fileContents?  Contents could also refer to a
> Collection.

Name it anything reasonable. 

According to the Java conventions and best practices, names should reflect the algorithmic purpose in the context of the logical model, not implementation specifics.  Why do you pull the file in to memory?  Does the algorithm care that the data came from a file?  If not, why would 'File' appear as a name part?

What is the purpose of the data?  Is it a widget configuration?  Then perhaps it should be 'String widgetConfiguration;'.

-- 
Lew

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