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why not a,b or x,y? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A useful tip I picked up was to use ii instead of j for an inner loop. It's far more distinct than j.

If for some terrible reason you have even more inner loops you can easily continue the trend i, ii, iii, iiii, iiiii - or iv, v if you're feeling roman

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

If you have the need to nest 5 levels of for-loops, I suggest taking a step back and rethinking your approach, my friend.

Even if that other approach is just refactoring it into separate methods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just do i2, i3, etc

[–] Gotoro 1 points 1 year ago

Becomes unreadable if you're using the iter values a lot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Two or three "i"s is readable, but any more and you're counting.
I'Ve started using i, k, m, n that's usually enough.