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RE: Unused variable in mouse.el: make-cursor-line-fully-visible
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Unused variable in mouse.el: make-cursor-line-fully-visible |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:06:18 -0800 |
> > (_ (mouse-set-point start-event)) ; variable `_' is unused, AFAICT.
>
> It's probably my code, influenced by my SML hacking.
>
> In Prolog, Haskell, SML, (and probably all other ML dialects and
> many logic
> programming languages) _ is a special variable used as here, to ignore
> arguments or return values.
Yes, I'm used to it in Prolog and Haskell. I don't see why any variable
should be bound here, however, anonymous or not. It is no doubt compiled
away, but I think the code is a bit less clear. It's not a big deal, though.