From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-10T23:28:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Beautiful Code : Pity he didn't ask here...

On Jul 10, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Paul Battley wrote:

> On 10/07/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
>> I've also recently adopted the trick of using _ as an unused
>> parameter name.  I believe it was Ara that first suggested this and I
>> think it's a great idea:
>>
>>    hash.sort_by { |key, _| � }�
>
> I thought it came from Haskell, where _ is a wildcard parameter:

I meant that I believe it was Ara who recommended it as a good name  
for an unused block parameter in Ruby.

James Edward Gray II