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why not a,b or x,y? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I think it's a convention taken from math notation conventions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I is short for "index" for a traditional for loop for mapping over an array and looking up by index. J comes after I and is used for nested loops so it doesn't shadow the outer I.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is it for “index” or “iterator”?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

yes

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