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Using single character variable names is always bad practice
Guess I'll have to name all of my iterators "it" instead of "I". That will fix things.
Definitely a hot take though. Bc there are definitely times when it is totally acceptable.
Iter works better than I for clarity
An iterator is commonly understood to be an object and thus something much more complex than a simple integer. This is the exact opposite of more clear.