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FOR loops I normally use a, b or c as a counter if a small program. In large complex programs, I use c0, c1, c2 etc instead.

I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu and the f looks like an f to me. So I did wonder how much falling down liquid everyone had been drinking
f ≠ £
F ≠ £ Or do I need to order a few more rounds?

Mark

Ralf R. wrote:I see. I was bit upset, because (for unknown reasons) nearly everybody uses "i".

He he, this used to be quite a big issue with magazine listings, because the rules of FOR loops varied so much. Lower case I may or may not be equivalent to upper case I while I can be mixed up with letter l with some typefaces. Many a happy (or usually not) hour spent in my youth trying to decipher these things from magazine listings, many not even from a QL.

Whether you use i, a, b or c it's usually better to use longer variable names on a QL. But that's a bit off topic here in the Off-Topic Section

1024MAK wrote:Or do I need to order a few more rounds?

OK yes, I'll join you (if you're paying)

dilwyn wrote:

1024MAK wrote:Or do I need to order a few more rounds?

OK yes, I'll join you (if you're paying)

Okay, as long as the pub accepts f10 notes

Mark

The courier font in a "select" window (here) let the "f" look a bit similar to a Pound.

1024MAK wrote:FOR loops I normally use a, b or c as a counter if a small program. In large complex programs, I use c0, c1, c2 etc instead.

I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu and the f looks like an f to me. So I did wonder how much falling down liquid everyone had been drinking
f ≠ £
F ≠ £

Code: Select all

f ≠ £
F ≠ £

Or do I need to order a few more rounds?

Mark

1024MAK wrote: Okay, as long as the pub accepts f10 notes

Mark

OK, I'll see what pressing F10 does now...

Dilwyn

Ralf R. wrote:The courier font in a "select" window (here) let the "f" look a bit similar to a Pound.

1024MAK wrote:FOR loops I normally use a, b or c as a counter if a small program. In large complex programs, I use c0, c1, c2 etc instead.

I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu and the f looks like an f to me. So I did wonder how much falling down liquid everyone had been drinking
f ≠ £
F ≠ £

Code: Select all

f ≠ £
F ≠ £

Or do I need to order a few more rounds?

Mark

Oh, I do realise that the effect does depend on which font is being used, which partly depends on which browser/OS is being used.

Mark

I didnt know about any "rules"

I have always used f in a for next loop as a ZX Spectrum user (and possible a ZX 81), you quickly learned that in Sinclair BASIC pressing the F key twice in succession creates

10 FOR f

Such was Sinclair's keyboard tokens, and stuck with me all my life

A loop within a loop for me was the most obvious (before anyone asks) USE the next letter
oops add a rnd colour and you may have seen the screens in W H Smiths during the early 80s
in Ilford, Essex.

"Ilford" only reminds me of the wonderful "Pan F".