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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I typically do too, or userIndex or something for nested loops, but I will accept i and j for the first two levels of nesting when reviewing a PR because they're such a convention. I wouldn't accept variable names like that anywhere else though and try and avoid them myself.