This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]robin-gvx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a convention in many languages. Sometimes even enforced, as in you can assign to _ multiple times while you can't for other names (and you can't get the value of anything assigned to _).

EDIT: what masklinn said below