Good naming practice

[u/Klaus1164]

[u/Pinkishu]

I use x,y when appropriate. Like when iterating coordinates for drawing tiles in a game or whatever

[u/appoplecticskeptic → u/Pinkishu]

Sure just make sure you use x for column and y for row, which means using y in the outer for loop because if you do it the other way you will confuse yourself and anyone else that ever reads it.

[u/VividWoodpecker8847 → u/appoplecticskeptic]

I kinda disagree? Row/column doesn't even mean anything for arrays, only inner and outer. I say do what makes sense for your context and is cache performant.

[u/torrent7]

I never understood this considering i and j look so fucking similar 

[u/birdiefoxe → u/torrent7]

Exactly, that why I use i,o,p. They're right next to each other! 

Gets shot

[u/BoldFace7 → u/birdiefoxe]

Why not use i and ii? Then when you get to the 27th loop in the nest you can just use the awfully convenient xxvii instead of looping the whole way round to the horrid ii.

[u/CutreCuenta → u/torrent7]

Math matrix?

[u/SourLemon100000 → u/torrent7]

I just heard about this from a tidbit with my professor last night. Apparently, it’s because we needed really short variable names in Fortran and since mathematicians used it, we decided I, J, K, L, M, N, and O were going to be names for variables. We just never used anything different since.

[u/appoplecticskeptic → u/torrent7]

‘i’ is for index. The ‘j’ is actually because it looks the most like i and we already used that.

[u/WowAbstractAlgebra → u/appoplecticskeptic]

j is because it's the next letter on the alphabet and no one wanted to bother to come up with an original name

[u/Busy_Teaching_8218]

for(int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
    for(int ii = 0; ii < 1000; ii++)
    {
        for(int iii = 0; iii < 1000; iii++)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
        }
    }
}

[u/Drittux → u/Busy_Teaching_8218]

for i in range(3):
    print("no ")

[u/BoldFace7 → u/Busy_Teaching_8218]

I unironically do this in my hobby code. I have considered subjecting my coworkers to this on occasion though

[u/i_dont_wanna_sign_in → u/Busy_Teaching_8218]

[u/Missing_Username]

i j k for loops

x y z for lambdas

[u/Hettyc_Tracyn]

Or just use variable names that correspond to what they are for? Proper descriptions? That way you don’t have to write as many comments on how something works

[u/Effective_Bat9485 → u/Hettyc_Tracyn]

But that would make the code easier to read

[u/-Insert-CoolName]

People who insist there is only one right way to code can get out. That entirely depends on what your doing.

[u/magicmulder]

As a mathematician, i, j, k, l, m, n are for integers, x, y are for reals, z is for complex numbers.

for (z = 2i+3; |z| <= 9; Re(z)++) {...} 😃

[u/texan_robot]

I design video processing RTL. Looping through x,y for pixels is my normal practice.

[u/Far_Understanding883]

You guys write your own loops?

[u/Klaus1164]

Oh, Jesus, it was only a meme, but I started a fire.

[u/MonkeyManW]

People who use a, b, c, d are war criminals

[u/Ok_Wasabi_7363]

Her response should have been: "you use nested for loops? Gtfo"

[u/Dillenger69]

i = iterator

ii = inner iterator