On 2014-04-03, Benedikt Ritter wrote: > I didn't now that '_' is a valid identifier at all.
That's a different point. :-) _ is used as an identifier in many funtional languages to mean "any argument, I don't care for it anyway" when you need to have an argument for a certain contract but won't use it. This is exactly what I used it for in the code Emmanuel changed. In other contexts _ means "anything" when used for pattern matching. You'll see that in Scala or F# or other ML inspired languages as well as in Haskell. When used with the correct settings the C# compiler will complain about method arguments that you don't use and if you prefix the argument name by a _ (or just use _ if there is only one such argument) it will no longer complain. I think this is where I finally picked up the habit. So I'm suprised Java8's compiler complains, I don't think it has done so before or I would have noticed. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
