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It *could* be an underscore; the only thing is that the underscore is a valid variable name, so the above expression would actually be binding two variables, which might surprise someone who was expecting otherwise. I don't really care all that much, but it's something to think about.

You can't define a variable more than once in a scope, so this can't be valid:

void main() {
    auto t1 = #(5, "hello", 1.5);
    auto (_,  _, x) = t1;
    auto (_, gr, _) = t1;
}


While ? defines nothing, so this is OK:

void main() {
    auto t1 = #(5, "hello", 1.5);
    auto (?,  ?, x) = t1;
    auto (?, gr, ?) = t1;
}

Bye,
bearophile

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