Been programmed to write the loop this way

i, j, k, x, n

item

TI-BASIC? "S". (Why? ...iunno, it just started as S and hasn't changed since.)
Python? "loopnum".

As far as I ... know it's for iteration.

@C0D4 perhaps.. but it isn't intuitive enough for all situations

@damleadwait true, it's better to use names when it makes sense.

I use foreach.
Pesants

i, j, k, n, m, a, b, c, _
Also:
f, g, h for lambda,
e, entry, item, thing, stuff etc. for foreach when I only use the retrieved variable on the next line to get something meaningful.

Last time I saw someone use ‘x’ in their loop, I had no idea what was going on until I replaced it with ‘i’. 😂

@suprano hahahah

When you finally realize “i” stood for “iteration”.

@Superviral was it because of the comment ?

@damleadwait this actually applies to myself for not knowing what it stood for all these years and all those “developer” tutorials stating that they don’t know why people chose that convention 😂😂😂

@Superviral 😂😂😂
Traditions!! Don't ask why, just follow

As people are adding lambda and foreach, both of my conventions are similar.
s, str ==> string
c ==> char
r, row ==> DataRow via DataTable enumeration
d, f, i, x, n, s, w, z ==> lambda searches, finds, casts, where, etc
<object>_item, temp_<object> ==> foreach objects from a list of complex structures

The index variable is not an iterator #memecorrection

@Superviral I thought it was for 'index'

@N0-Flux-Given @Superviral I thought it was for int.

The reason for loops indices starting with 'i' is because some ancient languages (can't remember which) had fixed variable names and integer vars started at 'i'

@12bitfloat how old are you 😲

@damleadwait 19

FORTRAN per https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...