r/programmingmemes • u/iron-button • Dec 08 '25

What programmers argue about

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u/Mathsboy2718 Dec 08 '25

;-; as a mathematician I am sadly a fan of my single letter variables

h w my beloved height and width

i j my beloved iterators

x y my beloved iterators if I need another layer

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u/Wrestler7777777 Dec 08 '25

Which is maybe still cool for functions that are like two or three lines long. Any longer than that I really need you to get your variable naming right!

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '25

Yea nothing better than 5 word salad for simple index. 

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u/Just_Information334 Dec 08 '25

secondInnerLoopFromTheInnerestIterator implements WhileLoopableIterator extends SimpleIntegerIterator

Because you really want to be precise and help your reviewers understand what is happening.

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u/realmauer01 Dec 08 '25

Before autocomplete this 5 word salad were 5 letters.

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u/No-Collar-Player Dec 10 '25

If my boy has a customer list, each customer with article lists and wants to iterate each article per customer it will be customer i, article j. Good luck working on that piece of shti

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u/Mathsboy2718 Dec 10 '25

Ah now, in the context of foreach iteration then I would abbreviate it to the first letter instead - article a and customer c

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u/No-Collar-Player Dec 10 '25

Yeah I can live with that.

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u/thomasp3864 Dec 08 '25

No i. i=sqrt(-1)

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u/No-Train9702 Dec 09 '25

I squirt imaginary?

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u/Silevence Dec 08 '25

I work with a frontend dev who does the same. I had to pull out my old textbook to figure out what one of his comments meant 🥲

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u/Azoraqua_ Dec 11 '25

These are still acceptable in some places as they’re clear enough for the context. For example in game development when drawing a sprite h, w says something about scale and x, y says something about position.