Let me also point out that this name has a life span of ~340 lines, it's not like it's only used in a two-line for loop.

When I'm reading your code, either for review as in this case, or while debugging, I don't want to have to guess about the meaning of a member variable. I really don't get why you deliberately want to make your code harder to read for other people. Maybe this is a matter of taste, but I'm pretty sure Code Complete and other standard texts agree with me here.