• throwsbooks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I always thought i for index when iterating through an array. Then you can’t use i again in a nested loop so j follows.

    Tho sometimes x, y if the array represents coordinates.

    Only a maniac would use a, b.

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      1 year ago

      One of the very first lines of code I ever wrote was:

      10 FOR a = 1 TO 70

      In Spectrum Basic. I do tend to use I these days, I’ve calmed down since my childhood days 😀