• exussum@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are you against using a single letter variable like e for element in iterating over things?

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        1 year ago

        To each their own. But man imagine if you have a collection of stuff that has a large name, and then having to figure out a short name other than e when iterating. I hope you’re not iterating over chemical names 😬

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          1 year ago

          No need to be over-descriptive. Anything at all more specific than e will probably be a better name

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          1 year ago

          It’s not black and white. I mean, even el is a lot better than e.

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      1 year ago

      Depends. If you’re using a good ol’ C-style for loop then nothing’s wrong with for(int i = 0; i < something;i++), but if you’re doing something like iterating over some collection it’s way clearer to do something like for animal in animals: than it is to do for e in animals:. Especially if you’re doing something non-trivial for each element