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by cirrus3 1273 days ago
Using "n" here instead of "user" just screams lazy... I wouldn't flag it either, and it will probably never be a problem is this case, but I would momentarily think of the dev that wrote "n" as lazy and worry a tiny bit more about what other code they are writing lazily as well. Don't be that person.
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I completely agree.

One letter names are a code smell I associate with the nastiest bugs I've experienced especially when the git blame shows multiple authors on it.