http://www.spuriousthoughts.com/2004/08/18/variable-naming-conventions/ Biased / Nicht immer ausgewogen Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:04:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.spuriousthoughts.com/2004/08/18/variable-naming-conventions/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Hans Martin Kern Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:35:34 +0000 http://www.spuriousthoughts.com/?p=299#comment-26 Judging from my experience, using i,j,k is pretty widespread in tight for.. loops. So I would consider this OK because basically everybody knows what to expect from “i” in a loop context, especially if the notion of “rows” or “columns” doesn’t work well with the data at hand.
However, you’re right on target with using “row” or “column” as soon as you iterating over some kind of tabular data.
And while we’re at it, using iterator-objects would probably make the whole discussion moot and be a much better choice.

]]> http://www.spuriousthoughts.com/2004/08/18/variable-naming-conventions/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Jeff Atwood Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:08:08 +0000 http://www.spuriousthoughts.com/?p=299#comment-25 Well, I think it’s hypocritical to decry the use of a,b,c while promoting the use of i,j,k. Why is one OK but the other isn’t?
I never liked i,j,k for the same reason I don’t like a,b,c.. would it kill us to use at least a few characters? I would rather see “row” or “col” than “i”, for example.

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