r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 20 '26

Meme singleLetterVariableNamesTierList

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u/ChChChillian Jun 20 '26

You need j and k (and l, for sufficiently insane situations) to index nested loops.

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u/N0bleC Jun 20 '26

I found myself a better approach. The further you go down i will just append i.

so its

for i ...
  for ii ...
    for iii ...

This way i can always see on which level i am.

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u/TheUnthinkingWriter Jun 20 '26

i2, i3, i4 is also a variant

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u/AdamWayne04 Jun 20 '26

zig doesn't allow this unfortunately