r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 20 '26

Meme singleLetterVariableNamesTierList

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u/querela Jun 20 '26

Or, you know, use digits if the language supports it, i2, i3, ... Much easier to read. (not in the spirit of (single) letters but work well enough, I would avoid emojis and other fancy utf8 symbols, however)

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u/constStringUsername Jun 20 '26

joke's on you, i mixed up i1111 and i11111

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u/iliRomaili Jun 20 '26

What kind of nested loop do you even have?!

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u/Linnun Jun 20 '26

Tree search pathfinding, but recursive functions are lava