On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:24:23 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [...] > That is also regrettably common in Python code. It still suffers from > being unnecessarily ambiguous, since there are *also* plenty of loops > using 'i', 'j', etc. where the loop counter *is* used. > > Differentiating these use cases by appropriate naming is, IMO, worth the > effort of choosing a meaningful name.
Even if the counter is not used inside the loop's body it's still in control of the whole loop and, IMO, any special discriminating and non- conventional name doesn't worth the added confusion. -- Ivan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
