Extremely short-sighted and ill informed answer. Python, for example uses leading underscores as a convention to indicate the locality and intended visibility of the variables and methods.
Single underscore usually means "local variable" (as in local block scope) and double leading underscores to indicate that a variable is private / local to the module / class scope. I've also seen similar convention in some C / C++ programs and may recent brush with C# taught me that (at least in public Microsoft's code) uses leading underscore for private fields as a convention. In Java, indeed, the leering underscore in variable names is if not illegal, largely frowned upon... esmaspäev, 2. mai 2011 21:02.58 UTC+3 kirjutas Andrzej Grzesik: > > None whatsoever > On 2 May 2011 19:45, "Chris Koerner" <ches...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just curious, under what circumstances in ANY language do you use an > > underscore in front of a variable/method/object? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
