What's your favorite 1 character length variable name?

[darthnull@infosec.exchange]

@petealexharris @ElyseMGrasso @catsalad "misremembered." heh. At this point, the fact that I remember anything at all about this bit of programming lore, I consider a victory.

(integrating assembly with FORTRAN on a Unisys mainframe was one of my favorite weird assignments in college...)

[australopithecus@mastodon.social]

@catsalad
𓂺
(U+130BA, from the Egyptian hieroglyphs block)

[ericdere@mastodon.nl]

@catsalad a for lambdas, i for iterations

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@australopithecus The censored in Windows hieroglyphs!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4095037/ancient-egyptian-hieroglyph-censorship-is-the-wors

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@catsalad ::draws ancient Quenya tengwa symbol, whispers its name, watches the air fill with ethereal light and a thrumming::

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@catsalad I wish I could change my vote

[icing@chaos.social]

@catsalad `i`, my code is very complex.

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@catsalad Is this multi-choice ironically?

[finitebaffle@mas.to]

@catsalad who tf voted for the “lodash” ‍️

[iamlayer8@mastodon.social]

@catsalad
It’s I for nostalgia reasons. But I like emojis in code and the last one is just cool.

I demand equal treatment for all Unicode!

To be honest, there should be dedicated Unicode characters for code.
(now everybody should be aware that I’m not a programmer myself)

[lijepasam@social.vivaldi.net]

@catsalad
doing math: x
coding : i

[dc4ac@radiosocial.de]

@catsalad Actually, it's ѭ

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@catsalad The all times favorite, thanks to math and K&R, can only be i, but... I do a lot of MISRA strict code, so nothing shorter than 4 char and meaningful in the context!

[rebootdeluxe@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad ∞

[gurkan@has.siktir.in]

@catsalad https://unicode-explorer.com/c/200B
a.k.a:
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[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@gurkan Zero-width variable names

[bradsaillard@mastodon.social]

@catsalad
Where’s n ?
My most frequent choice for a loop variable in REXX.

[avatastic@avatastic.uk]

@catsalad U+037E

[ada@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@catsalad@infosec.exchange U+202E, the right to left override character "‮". it does what it says on the tin. (and also reverses parentheses)

[golgaloth@writing.exchange]

@catsalad

I have a character in one of my books called Viva, and everyone abbreviates it to Vee, so...