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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Cmon now its illegal to use them anywhere other than iterators

[–] FooBarrington 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FooBarrington 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This is the way