[libvirt PATCH 4/4] docs: coding-style: One variable declaration per line

[Laine Stump]

On 1/14/22 3:29 PM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On a Friday in 2022, Laine Stump wrote:
>> Since it's Friday and we're talking about personal preferences - I 
>> personally dislike the use of i and j (and anything else with a single 
>> letter) as variable names, because it makes using a text search for 
>> occurences pointless. Sure, longer variable names could also be a 
>> substring of something else, and any variable could be re-used 
>> elsewhere, but even then a search is mildly usable.
> 
> Well, you need to search for the word i instead of the letter i.
> 
> grep has the '-w' switch for that, or you can specify some boundaries:
>     \bi\b
>     \<i\>
> 
> vim searches for the word under the cursor with '*' by default
> 
> Surely other search tools have some equivalent.

This forced me to go look for it in emacs, and after 28 years, I've 
learned about isearch-forward-symbol-at-point, which is by default bound 
to [alt-s .]. But that's just another different keystroke I have to 
remember. Much easier if I can just use an expansion of the ctl-s 
(incremental search) that I already know and use for pretty much all 
searching within a single file.

> 
>>
>> (On the other hand, sometimes a loop is just a loop and it takes too 
>> much brain capacity to think of a meaningful name for the index. I 
>> used to work with someone who always used "ii" and "jj" for generic 
>> loop indexes because they were then easy to search for with few false 
>> positives (well - "ascii", "skiing", and a surprisingly high number of 
>> other more obscure words, but still...) , and I internalized that 
>> practice myself. After having libvirt patches with that rejected a 
>> couple times, I unlearned and conformed to the hive :-))
> 
> II thank you.
> 
> JJano

KKind of you,

LLaine