Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 06/03/2025 17:52, Richard Harnden wrote:

On 06/03/2025 14:49, Scott Lurndal wrote:

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

On 05/03/2025 18:51, Scott Lurndal 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
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Nonsense.
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Ask rather why Fortran picked i, j, k for integer-type index variables.
Their use for that function in maths /long/ predates Fortran.

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That doesn't mean that C programmers didn't adopt the
use of i,j,k from FORTRAN.

 I'd always assumed it was because 'index' was too much to type, and that j and k just followed on.
 Didn't know about any hysterical raisins.

At school we used a, b, c... for trigonometry and p, q, r for point co-ordinates, so I suppose I assumed that i, j, k... for matrices was intended to exploit a nice juicy part of the alphabet that wasn't being used for anything else...
...and then along came imaginary numbers.
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