Mysteries of the Underscore

Neia Neutuladh neia at ikeran.org
Mon Dec 24 16:53:57 UTC 2018


On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:16:01 -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Rather, it's *conventionally* taken to mean "unused".  The language
> actually does not treat it in any special way apart from "normal"
> identifiers.  It's perfectly valid (though probably not recommended!) to
> declare functions or variables with the name "_" and use them.

I once, in my callow days, wrote a unittest with variables named _, __, 
___, etc. It did not pass code review, but it did amuse.


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