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		ajanuary on Dec 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: System.Linq.Parallel Is Now Open Source > 'p', 'q' also tends to be the de facto standard operator in lambda expressions, rather than 'x', 'y' or 'i', 'j'. The authors of the plinq library are clearly not C# developers then. https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/search?p=1&q=select&utf8=%E...

chiph on Dec 3, 2014 [–]

I tend to use a letter somewhat related to the object I'm running the query against. Like 'c' for a List<Customer>.

While using i,j,k as loop variables have a long tradition behind them (from FORTRAN77, IIRC), no reason to limit myself when using Linq.

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