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Worse than single letters (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if they are well-known in the language you’re using or domain you’re writing for. x and y are fine for coordinates. i and j are fine for loop indices. But abbreviating things unnecessarily is bad IMO. s = GetSession() is too terse, for example.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

No, I mean single-letter vars are standard in physics and math, but reusing vars is not acceptable. Obviously they're not good practice except in the scenarios you describe, but mathies gonna math.