Re: [PATCH 6/6] Staging: bcm: Rename unnecessarily long local variables where appropriate.

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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:17:21PM -0500, Kevin McKinney wrote:
>> This patch replaces unnecessarily long local variables
>> used in for loops with more compact i and/or x for
>> readability purposes.
>
> I would say that "x" is almost always a bad name for a variable.
> Traditionally if you have two loops, then you might use "i" for the
> outside iterator and "j" for the inside iterator.  But really it's
> often better to name your iterators in that case so there is no
> confusion.
>
> Many of these iterators don't need to be initialized.  Iterators
> should be type "int" by default unless something extra special is
> going on.
>
Okay, yeah - that makes sense.  I will change these variables back to
the original name.

Thanks,
Kevin
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