NAMES

Local Variable and Parameter Names

6.8.6

f

 for a

float

i

,

j

, and

k

 for integers

l

 for a

long

o

 for an

Object

s

 for a

String

v

 for an arbitrary value of some type

Local variable or parameter names that consist of only two or three uppercase

letters should be avoided to avoid potential conflicts with the initial country codes

and domain names that are the first component of unique package names ( 7.7).

What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.

 William Shakespeare,

Romeo and Juliet

 (c. 1594), Act II, scene ii

. . . stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

 Bernard of Morlay,

De contemptu mundi

(12th century),

quoted in Umberto Eco,

The Name of the Rose

 (1980)

Rose, Rose, bo Bose,

Banana fana fo Fose,

Fee, fie, mo Mose 

 Rose!

 Lincoln Chase and Shirley Elliston,

The Name Game

(#3 pop single in the U.S., January 1965),

as applied to the name  Rose 

111