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[80.91.229.3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l87si15975052lfi.213.2016.02.23.07.00.05 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:00:05 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) client-ip=80.91.229.3; Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYERY-0004Sa-7B for std-proposals@isocpp.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:00:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tripoint.kitware.com ([66.194.253.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:00:04 +0100 Original-Received: from mwoehlke.floss by tripoint.kitware.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:00:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tripoint.kitware.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <20160222222145.4898897.37384.5528@gmail.com> X-Original-Sender: mwoehlke.floss@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org; dmarc=fail (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Spam-Checked-In-Group: std-proposals@isocpp.org X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:24613 Archived-At: On 2016-02-22 17:21, Tony V E wrote: > For the issues of backwards compatibility, I think we could use _=20 > (single) with just the additional rule that _ can be used to name > more than one variable per scope. [...] >=20 > =E2=80=8ESo if anyone is currently using _ as a variable name - even beyo= nd > just construction, it still works. Besides that I dislike that that's now a "magic identifier", what about *functions* named `_`? I'd really prefer `.`... what's wrong with `.`? No one has discussed that except a vague impression that it's not liked, but no one has said why... --=20 Matthew --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp= ..org/d/msgid/std-proposals/nahrvk%24ncs%241%40ger.gmane.org. .