Is a variable named i unacceptable? [closed]

Answer 1

I am going to go against the grain and say no.

For the crowd that says "i is understood as an iterator", that may be true, but to me that is the equivalent of comments like 'Assign the value 5 to variable Y. Variable names like comment should explain the why/what not the how.

To use an example from a previous answer:

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    // i is well known here to be the index
    objectCollection[i].SomeProperty = someValue;
}

Is it that much harder to just use a meaningful name like so?

for(int objectCollectionIndex = 0; objectCollectionIndex  < 10; objectCollectionIndex ++)
{
    objectCollection[objectCollectionIndex].SomeProperty = someValue;
}

Granted the (borrowed) variable name objectCollection is pretty badly named too.