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Re:Python 3.6.0 released by otakucode on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:20PM (#13245881)
What does the _ do in Scala? I've not used Scala, and it wasn't terribly clear from context unless you mean they use _ exactly as javascript uses => (which would seem really weird to me so I'm assuming its different, apologies if that is asinine).
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Re:Python 3.6.0 released by Nullabillity on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:27PM (#13246720)
_ is a placeholder for the next lambda argument. So, for example, `x => x.blah()` could be rewritten as `_.blah()`, and `x => blah(x)` could be rewritten as `blah(_)` (or, since we don't need partial application here, simply `blah`).

It also works for multiple arguments: `_ * _` is equivalent to `(x, y) => x * y`, which is really `(x, y) => x.*(y)`.

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Re:Python 3.6.0 released by lmm on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:42PM (#13246015)
"_" is kind of the equivalent of "x => x" (only rather than x it's some temporary generated name that doesn't overlap with anything else). So you'd write "_ * 10" rather than "i => i * 10"
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