How do you refer to the currently logged user in your code?

Question

In other words - what would be a good name for a variable that references the currently logged user?

I've come up with a few:

• logged_user
• visitor
• me

I'm not convinced either of them is good enough though.

Answer 1

current_user seems the obvious choice.

Answer 2

Either theUserWhoLoggedInAFewMinutesBeforeAndWhoHasNotYetLoggedOutAgain or just ich