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jiive
6y ago
> It's not like a more descriptive name would help in that example, the type name and function name already give sufficient context for it to be perfectly clear what the parameter is for, and it's not like parameter names have
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jiive
6y ago
This piqued my intrest. I’m a hobbyist C programmer so forgive me if this is a rudimentary question. What is the rationale/convention for naming a variable “_”? I’ve never seen this before. For example: struct lg_buf *lg_buf_init(s