Love Parkinson's law of triviality.

$discard is fine with me since it seems to get the most use.

Caleb


On 11/10/2011 01:34 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Hi devs,
> 
> Some methods must be captured so that they don't create output when called 
> from velocity, usually with something like:
> 
> #set ($var = $obj.doSomething())
> 
> Where $var is a variable whose content isn't needed and won't be used. And 
> everyone seems to have his favorite name for it: $discard, $ok, $ignore...
> 
> I'd like to have a single variable name, so that in the end we don't end up 
> creating 5 different variables for the same goal. So, which one do you prefer:
> 
> 1. $discard
> 2. $discarded
> 3. $ignore
> 4. $ignored
> 5. $ok
> 6. $output
> 
> $ok is the shortest, thus easier to type, faster to parse, and lighter on the 
> total size of the wiki. On the other hand, I prefer $discard since it's more 
> meaningful, it conveys exactly what that line does: "$discard the output of 
> this method call".

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