Paddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used Fortran and C and so would tend to use either i,j,k as the > unused loop variable above, or, for clarity, call it something > descriptive like loop_count, if the loop body would be clearer.
The problem with all of these names is that they also have long precedent as names of values that *will* be used inside the loop. Because of the precedent of those names, choosing one of those names doesn't make it clear to the reader that the value is never used; they have no indication from you of that until they look over the code a few times. It's implicit rather than explicit. -- \ "As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it | `\ that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a | _o__) nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!" -- Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list