<![CDATA[What's your favorite 1 character length variable name?]]>What's your favorite 1 character length variable name?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/7a245b26-9228-45bf-a3f4-4164398e5bd7/what-s-your-favorite-1-character-length-variable-nameRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 00:13:24 GMTFri, 24 Apr 2026 13:45:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:29:24 GMT]]>@catsalad no u or y? ._.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ptmcg/statuses/116464542193748532https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ptmcg/statuses/116464542193748532Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:04:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:01:14 GMT]]>@hcf @catsalad Sadly, Python rejects this. There are a limited number of leading characters for variable names (although Unicode denormalized versions of them are valid), but emojis aren't among them.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ptmcg/statuses/116464528581991787https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ptmcg/statuses/116464528581991787Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:01:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:52:59 GMT]]>@catsalad It's not 1 but 2 characters: `_ยท` This is a legal variable name in Python. The second character is the Unicode MIDDLE DOT. It is only legal as a body character, not an initial character, so you need the leading "_".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ptmcg/statuses/116464496114040086https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/ptmcg/statuses/116464496114040086Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:52:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:51:27 GMT]]>@catsalad $_ ๐Ÿ˜„

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n, m
Or may i suggest ๊™ฎ (meaning " a lot of eyes", hex code: a66e)

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if ๐Ÿงป {
return ๐Ÿšฝ
} else {
return ๐Ÿ’ฉ
}]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.bsdlab.au/objects/b22adbd1-dcf0-452b-ad2a-7f96b78940e1https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.bsdlab.au/objects/b22adbd1-dcf0-452b-ad2a-7f96b78940e1Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:24:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:38:24 GMT]]>@JensHannemann

The Fortran people do. But we need the i in the first place ๐Ÿ˜€

@catsalad

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As Rust developer, of course `_` ๐Ÿ˜

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

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Whereโ€™s n ?
My most frequent choice for a loop variable in REXX.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bradsaillard/statuses/116462116187712129https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bradsaillard/statuses/116462116187712129Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:47:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:31:27 GMT]]>@gurkan Zero-width variable names

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/catsalad/statuses/116461816231520851https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/catsalad/statuses/116461816231520851Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:31:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:22:37 GMT]]>@catsalad https://unicode-explorer.com/c/200B
a.k.a:
โ€‹
โ€‹
โ€‹
โ€‹

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ap/users/116092650648397225/statuses/116461191636732014https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ap/users/116092650648397225/statuses/116461191636732014Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:52:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:23:52 GMT]]>@catsalad Actually, it's ัญ

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://radiosocial.de/users/DC4AC/statuses/116461078583925648https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://radiosocial.de/users/DC4AC/statuses/116461078583925648Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:23:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:03:12 GMT]]>@catsalad
doing math: x
coding : i

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115968202410153634/statuses/116460997349265792https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/115968202410153634/statuses/116460997349265792Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:03:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:45:39 GMT]]>@catsalad
Itโ€™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 Iโ€™m not a programmer myself)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/iamlayer8/statuses/116460928345378265https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/iamlayer8/statuses/116460928345378265Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:45:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:37:29 GMT]]>@catsalad who tf voted for the โ€œlodashโ€ ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†”๏ธ

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/finitebaffle/statuses/116460896252549965https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/finitebaffle/statuses/116460896252549965Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:37:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What's your favorite 1 character length variable name? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:21:12 GMT]]>@catsalad Is this multi-choice ironically?

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