• hh93@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      If i is lowercase too then it doesn’t make a difference

      But tbh if your function is having mit than 3 levels of nested loops you should probably rethink that function

  • barsoap@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It depends. x and y are either elements or coordinates, a and b usually elements though in e.g. Haskell reserved (by convention) for type variables.

    The i j k l series is reserved for indices. n m etc. are the counts of something, as such you’ll see i counting up to n. Both are due to mathematical sum notation and general mathematical convention. Random google result:

    Let x1, x2, x3, …xn denote a set of n numbers. x1 is the first number in the set. xi represents the ith number in the set.

    …if you’re using a language in which you use i often chances are you should stop coding in C and get yourself a language with iterators. Manual loops are a bug magnet.