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It doesn’t turn out to be problem in progress. Even having I and l look the same isn’t something that I ever need to think about.



I l | 1

I once had trouble with a variable named ‘l’ because I thought it was a pipe (bitwise or in js)


I just tried it out, but then I realized (a) I never use capital I as a standalone variable name...and I never used it period. i will always be an integer anyways. Since coding standards enforce nice variable names and forbid ascii spacing art, ya, it never comes up.




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