• jdaxe@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    due to convention everybody understands what i and j are, I don’t think they need longer names. If it’s something more complicated than a counter or index then maybe you should be using a foreach loop instead (if language supports it)

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      1 year ago

      I generally use ‘count’ for a counter and ‘idx’ for index.

      I’m not using C or Java languages though - if I were I would probably go with the more classic terse approach.

      Also, if I’m reviewing a PR and I have to load more of the diff context to understand what a variable represents, then that variable has the wrong name.