The Default Letter

Variable naming Iterators Coding conventions I variable Programming habits Clean code Loop counters Naming things

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The duality of programmer brain function is hilariously accurate here. For regular variables, it's absolute chaos - fighting over whether to use temp, result, or just mash the keyboard with myVar. But for iteration variables? The council has convened and unanimously decreed: "We shall use 'i' and nothing else." The formal ceremony of loop counter naming has remained unchanged since the ancient days of FORTRAN. Bonus points if you graduate to j for nested loops while feeling incredibly sophisticated.

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