Ajai Khattri wrote: > 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 :-) >
Ahhh, okay. Thanks. Bev
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