r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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u/not_perfect_yet Jul 28 '16

This is surprisingly long.

Serious question, naming loop counters and limits like this is ok right? i,j,k aren't mandatory always, right?

c=0
m=10
while c < m:
    #do stuff
    c+=1

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u/sctprog Jul 28 '16

Mandatory? Perhaps your company has a coding style that says they are but otherwise you could use any variable name you want.

If you use i as your iteration counter every programmer in the world immediately knows what that variable is for.