How do you refer to the user using the application vs. the user being edited? [closed]
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Suppose you are developing an administration page where the administrator can edit other users. In your code you want to distinguish between the user sitting in front of the screen, and the user being edited.
What do you call the two? User, CurrentUser, EditedUser, CurrentEditUser, etc?
Note that the admin user isn't necessarily real admin, they can be just an ordinary user given rights to edit other users.
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