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Yes, and the reason for why that's OK is that the context is just few lines. But this is borderline due to the amount of variables.

In just 4 lines you have r, row, t, ri, l, i and c.

The full variables names are so short anyway that personally I'd write them out. Code does evolve and there's a risk of this suffering as a result.





That’s a fair point.

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rowIndex isn’t that short.

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We might be able to use rowIx? Let's discuss it on the next Monday standup. Everyone will need to have an opinion, max 5 minutes per person.

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shortness is in the eye of the beholder… program with spring framework long enough and rowIndex sounds like abbreviation. :)

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  RowIndexFactoryGeneratorService rowIndexFactoryGeneratorService = new RowIndexFactoryGeneratorService();
  RowIndexFactory rowIndexFactory = rowIndexFactoryGeneratorService.getTheFactoryOrSomethingIDontCare();
  RowIndex rowIndex = rowIndexFactoryGeneratorService.generateRowIndex();

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