From: Pit Capitain Date: 2007-07-11T20:11:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Beautiful Code : Pity he didn't ask here... 2007/7/10, James Edward Gray II : > 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, _| � }� Maybe it was Ara indeed, but the first reference I found on ruby-talk was a post from Nikolai Weibull almost two years ago. See ruby-talk:149793. Regards, Pit