From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What does the _ in `(defun org-element-section-parser (_) ...)' stands for?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 13:59:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vb5x90bc.fsf@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb5xsrqa.fsf@gmail.com>
I guess it is a required signature for the function (i.e. some other
function will call it with some argument), and _ indicates it is not
used in the body. If you were to give it the arg a name, then checkdoc
would complain about it not being in the docstring.
Thorsten Jolitz writes:
> Hi List,
> just out of curiosity, a few functions in org-element.el contain _ in
> their parameter list, but its not used in the body.
> What does it stand for?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-09 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-09 17:45 What does the _ in `(defun org-element-section-parser (_) ...)' stands for? Thorsten Jolitz
2016-02-09 18:59 ` John Kitchin [this message]
2016-02-10 20:13 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-02-10 20:47 ` John Kitchin
2016-02-11 17:10 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-02-11 17:20 ` John Kitchin
2016-02-11 17:33 ` Nick Dokos
2016-02-14 16:45 ` John Kitchin
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