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Meta Is it good practice to change the names of variables in challenges?

Yes Unless the challenge tells you what to name your function, you're free to use anything. This means that single character names are usually the best option. Note that anonymous function submis...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2021-07-28T22:42:51Z (over 3 years ago)
# Yes

Unless the challenge tells you what to name your function, you're free to use anything. This means that single character names are usually the best option.

## Note that anonymous function submissions / lambdas are allowed

For that challenge, you don't actually need to submit anything other than the function; running the function (i.e. assigning a name to it and running test cases) is separate.