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[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Amateur! Ints should be called i, j or k.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cmon now its illegal to use them anywhere other than iterators

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I sometimes use n as my loop variable (⌐■_■)

[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

n is genrally the max though. “From i=0 to n” is used in math all the time.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Which is fine, only it might confuse whoever then has to maintain your code.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

This is the way