I was working on a typescript project. Naturally f...

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[jasper]

I was working on a typescript project. Naturally for collections I named parameters like collection.filter(it => it.age > 18)
^-- Was told that calling the parameter 'it' is 'weird' and that I must not do this! 😄

[Matteo Mirk]

this is actually weird… I remember it being a convention in CoffeeScript too! So what would be the accepted convention in TS?

[jasper]

I do use it on my own TS projects (like drivine.org) however this team was quite particular.

In fact we didn't see eye-to-eye on a few matters regarding style, design patterns and etc so ended up parting ways.

[jasper]

They liked 'item' or to name the thing in the collection.

[todd.ginsberg]

I use it everywhere now, even in Java. You could say "Sure, it is just short for `item`" 🙂

[jasper]

I did notice there irony regarding 'it' vs 'item' at the time, believe me 🙂

[Marc Knaup]

I’ve also started using it in TS because of Kotlin.
Using long descriptive variable names when they are not needed usually make code even harder to read rather than easier.