I love it too. While it is used in many different places it always means "stuff that I do not care to name".
BTW. "high priest of the lambda calculus" loves it too :) It has its roots in Haskell... http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/C9-Lectures-Dr-Erik-Meijer-Functional-Programming-Fundamentals-Chapter-4-of-13/ Cheers Joni On 23 loka, 09:48, Jonas Bonér <jbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I love the _ operator. > > 2009/10/22 Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>: > > > > > > > I think this is a bit of a running joke in the scala comunity right > > now - your right, underscore really does have a number of meanings; I > > think this will be changed in some future Scala release. > > > Your also forgetting: > > > import some.package._ > > > Cheers, Tim > > > On 22 Oct 2009, at 12:57, tiro wrote: > > >> underscore. At least four different uses: > >> - "it" for defining anonymous functions like above > >> - default value > >> - matching placeholder whose value is ignored > >> - use for constructing setter method names boolean functions (empty_?) > > -- > Jonas Bonér > > twitter: @jboner > blog: http://jonasboner.com > work: http://scalablesolutions.se > code: http://github.com/jboner > code: http://akkasource.org > also: http://letitcrash.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
