by way of an example:

int pszBesmirchHungeriansNotation;

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:57 PM, John Stalker <stal...@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> One thing to remember about descriptive identifiers is that the
> compiler doesn't check whether the descriptions are accurate or
> not.  Often they were when the code was first written, but become
> less so over time.  Sometimes they were never accurate.  One nice
> thing about i, j, etc. is that you aren't tempted to make assumptions
> about them that aren't backed up by the code.  But I'm a mathematician,
> so I tend to have peculiar ideas about such things.
>
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