How “self-documenting” can code be without being annoying? [closed]

Answer 1

I think it's ok to abbreviate when the name would hurt readability or just be redundant.

Example 1: An argument to a method where the type allready conveys all information necessary.

Example 2: A variable that will be use a lot in an obvious way

StringBuilder sb = ...
sb.append(...
sb.append(...
return sb.toString();

Example 3: Idiomatic abbrevations. i,j,k has allready been mentioned. "sb" above is one in our code, and each team probably has a couple more.