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sick meme, I think i is for index

IIRC first versions of COBOL (or some other prehistoric language) had fixed, pre-defined variables of different types, "i" was the first integer.

In Mathematics the variables i,j,k,l where usually used to describe integers. Fortran took this convention and ran with it, in Fortran variables beginning with the letters I-N where of type Integer by default, which of course means that single letter I is the first "default" integer variable.

for (let thing of things) { ... }

Okay?

... or even this:

things.map(thing => ...)

I learned assembly first, and then picked up C, which gave me a few strange habits and patterns. For example, I often used `a` or `c` as the for loop variable because it's called the accumulator, and in assembly it's common practice to use the cx register for looping.

Integer: i
String: s
Player: p
<ClassName>: <ClassName>.lowerCase()[0]

@kamen or even things.map(t => ...)

@k0pernikus Yeah, but I think it makes more sense to give it a meaningful name; after all, you're not typing it two times like just the declaration row of a standard for loop, so IMO it doesn't hurt for it to be longer... unless you're doing something on a single row, when just one character can be okay.

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in TI-BASIC i use S for loops (then T,U,V if something's nested.) No clue WHY, but I do. They're not even easiest to get to, they're just what I use...

Does anyone uses x, y, z?

Because index

use ii to make it explicit that its a loop variable.

And if i ia already taken, use j!

In our physics class when working with dimensions we used i, j, and k as for x , y, and z. Don't know if it's a physics thing or that our lecturer preferred to do it that way.

So it might be in order to denote dimensions.

@creskendoll it's a math thing for unit vectors along the co-ordinate axes

_ for me..

Now, now, I've used j, k, l, and m before...

...in nested FOR loops.

No one will ever know.

Unless it just simply means “iterate” or “iteration” which actually makes the most sense tbh.

Don't forget j for the inner for loop.