alt Hacker News> That would make “ProductIndex” superior to “i”, which doesn't add any clarity.
Adds a ton of clarity, especially if you have a nested loop.
> That would make “ProductIndex” superior to “i”, which doesn't add any clarity.
Adds a ton of clarity, especially if you have a nested loop.
and god help you if those loops are pairing People and Products.
though now that I write that out... it would be really nice if you could optionally type iteration vars so they couldn't be used on other collections / as plain integers. I haven't seen any languages that do that though, aside from it being difficult to do by accident in proof-oriented languages.