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On Monday, June 29, 2020 at 5:04:05 AM UTC-4, Neil Girdhar wrote: > > PEP 622 proposes a special use for _: to match anything, discarding the > whatever value matches. (If I understand.) This aligns with the way _ is > conventionally used in other statements. This special use in case > statements feels weird given that _ is otherwise just an ordinary > variable. It may even have a value going into the case/match statement, > which would be ignored. > > Has there been any discussion on deprecating use of _ as an R-value? In > other words, making _ a "black hole" variable "preposition" into which > values go but never come out? Besides the benefit of unifying the > conventional use of _ with its proposed use in case/match statements, > another benefit for CPython would be that _ would no longer hang onto > references and would therefore not prevent garbage collection of whatever > was put into it. > > Best, > > Neil >
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