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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:54:09 GMT
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If I were to see "ix", I would guess that it is really an integer "x"
(e.g. an x coordinate) and that an ex-Fortran programmer is following
his old naming conventions. I have some old code of mine containing
stuff translated from Fortran that has variables named this way.