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Worse than single letters
(lemmy.world)
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Only if they are well-known in the language you’re using or domain you’re writing for.
x
andy
are fine for coordinates.i
andj
are fine for loop indices. But abbreviating things unnecessarily is bad IMO.s = GetSession()
is too terse, for example.No, I mean single-letter vars are standard in physics and math, but reusing vars is not acceptable. Obviously they're not good practice except in the scenarios you describe, but mathies gonna math.