What's your favorite 1 character length variable name?

[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...

[beandev@social.tchncs.de]

@catsalad
As Rust developer, of course `_`

[echopapa@social.tchncs.de]

@JensHannemann

The Fortran people do. But we need the i in the first place

@catsalad

[oxy@social.bsdlab.au]

@catsalad
if 🧻 {
return
} else {
return
}

[b_rain@troet.cafe]

@catsalad
n, m
Or may i suggest ꙮ (meaning " a lot of eyes", hex code: a66e)

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@catsalad 𰻞

[ramonfincken@mastodon.social]

@catsalad i next to "temp" for a var that only lives 5 lines

[perlplayer@mastodon.social]

@catsalad $_

[ptmcg@fosstodon.org]

@catsalad It's not 1 but 2 characters: `_·` 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 "_".

[ptmcg@fosstodon.org]

@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.