On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, li...@nopersonal.info wrote: > Re your friend, yikes! I know what you mean about using $counter. I > figured out that $i or $n stands for an integer, but it still throws me > off sometimes when I see something like $l in someone's example code > (below)... what is the "l" supposed to stand for? Or does it depend on > the context?
Its mainly a historical thing. The same way every first program says 'Hello World'. Even when I was a kid learning BASIC, popular programming books still used i, j and k (or I%, J% and K% in BBC BASIC :-) -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
