Using i and j as variables
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Shadowing Matlab's built-in functions is without doubt a bad programming practice. Therefore TMW suggests not to use i and j as names of variables, see: techdoc: Avoid Using i and j for Variables.
Today MLint suggests to use 1i instead of i to get the imaginary value. But this should avoid conflicts suffiently already and the very common and frequent usage of i and j as variables looses its conflict potential.
Did you ever run into problems by using i as a variable? Do you know any public or private code, which relies on i to be the imaginary unit? If so, is it a script or is it encapsulated in a function, such that the user-land programs can still misuse i in the typical for loops?
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Stephen23
2015-2-5
The use of i and j also comes up regularly in the questions posed here on MATLAB Central Answers. I started a discussion on how this should be dealt with in responses to questions.
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Matt Fig
2012-8-24
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Yes, I ran into much trouble in my early days of MATLAB using i and j as indices in signal processing and data manipulation code. I was writing my first big MATLAB project for a physicist back when I was a graduate student. After debugging for quite some time, I began to figure out why all of his indices were double characters! I soon adopted his convention and always teach this when teaching programming to others. Not only does the use of double characters (ii,jj,kk,mm,nn) prevent masking, but it makes them stand out as indices in the code - you just cannot miss what they are.
There was quite a bit of legacy MATLAB code that used i and j and globals (!) when I first began where I am. This often caused problems and bugs so I went through and turned all i's into ii's and all globals into locals. No bugs since. This was a mix of scripts and functions.
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Daniel Shub
2012-8-24
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Did you ever run into problems by using i as a variable: Yes, that is how I learned not to use it as a counter.
Do you know any public or private code, which relies on i to be the imaginary unit: Much of my signal processing work uses i as the imaginary unit. I have been using 1i recently, but my old code still has i.
If so, is it a script or is it encapsulated in a function, such that the user-land programs can still misuse i in the typical for loops: As far as I know I only have one saved script, so it is all in functions.
In my own code I tend to use counters like icol and irow instead of the bare i and j. When it is not clear what I am looping over I tend to go with ii or cnt.
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Matt Fig
2012-8-24
Jan, reaching way back in memory, I seem to recall someone (not 'someone'!) having a problem with 'i' and posting the code on the NG. Also, note the use of the variable 'sum' here today! That is probably the one I see most...
Oleg Komarov
2012-8-30
iFile, iStr, iTemperature etc... make me think of Apple products which wouldn't make me want to look at your code ever, ever again! :)
Sean de Wolski
2012-8-30
@Matt, I think size is the one I've seen the most. I try to always use sz or szx.
Jan
2012-8-30
Walter Roberson
2012-8-30
Apple products: iPhone, iPad, iPod...
Sean de Wolski
2012-8-30
And the iPottie.
Jan
2012-8-30
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