Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 2025-03-05, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> writes:

On 05/03/2025 17:09, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 05.03.2025 17:40, bart wrote:

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Seriously, short variable names for common things - i, j, k for loop
counters;

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So, one might ask _why_ i, j, k instead of a, b, c?
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Answer: Fortran IMPLICIT INTEGER

I don't think it's as simple as blaming Fortran. Fortran itself
starts the implicit integer variables at i for a reason.

That reason is that the variable i is used as an indexing dumy
variable in mathematics. I seem to recall that it's because it
is the first letter of the Latin word "index".

Using i for indexing, and then allocating nested indices using
subsequent letters after i, is a practice that long precedes
the existence of computers and Fortran.

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