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Re:On F# code readability by gnaritas on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:21PM (#5321058)
If there were nested loops, I'd use meaningful names, and as a matter of course of using meaningful names, index beats i on a single loop. It's silly to sometimes use meaningful names and sometimes abbreviate because you're too lazy to type.

Of course, these are personal subjective things, but if you allow the habit of abbreviation, it tends to spread where it isn't appropriate, better to simply not do it.

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Re:On F# code readability by Dylan16807 on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:40PM (#5321524)
'index' just isn't meaningful. Use actual meaning or use shorthand. Don't waste verbosity.
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Re:On F# code readability by gnaritas on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:58PM (#5321598)
"index" is very meaningful, it tells me I'm indexing and not counting, otherwise I'd use "count". Confusion between those two often causes off by one errors, so yes it does actually matter and is actually meaningful. You might like "i" or "n" to convey the same meaning, but as I said, I want words not abbreviations.
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Re:On F# code readability by klibertp on Monday March 04, 2013 @05:58PM (#5321597)
Of course, it should be `aStreamPosition` rather than `index` - still not `i` ;)
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