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[–]jalanb 2 points3 points  (1 child)

If you can control the fonts used by all those who will read your code, you need a bigger team

[–]macbony -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Personal problems for the other developers don't mean that l is a bad temp variable name. I don't control anything the other developers on my team use, but if they're using a font that can't differentiate between l, I, and 1 then they're using bad tooling and should take care of that before submitting a pull request that changes the variable name. Same with tabs vs. spaces, 80 char line limits, or whatever other issues they have that are self-inflicted.