> Of course not. If you never use ell's, then anything that looks like it might be an ell is actually a one. Code is not just for your own eyes, it is for the

> Of course not. If you never use ell's, then anything that looks like it might be an ell is actually a one. Code is not just for your own eyes, it is for the eyes of future readers and maintainers. Though you might be aware of your "no bare l" rule, your readers are not. Besides the fact that "1" and "l" are intentionally made to look different in fonts used for programming, syntax highlighting usually makes numbers stand out from everything else. In my editor, "1" is red and "l" is black.