Love Parkinson's law of triviality.
$discard is fine with me since it seems to get the most use.
Caleb
On 11/10/2011 01:34 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Hi devs,
Some methods must be captured so that they don't create output when called from
velocity, usually with something like:
#set ($var = $obj.doSomething())
Where $var is a variable whose content isn't needed and won't be used. And
everyone seems to have his favorite name for it: $discard, $ok, $ignore...
I'd like to have a single variable name, so that in the end we don't end up
creating 5 different variables for the same goal. So, which one do you prefer:
1. $discard
2. $discarded
3. $ignore
4. $ignored
5. $ok
6. $output
$ok is the shortest, thus easier to type, faster to parse, and lighter on the total size
of the wiki. On the other hand, I prefer $discard since it's more meaningful, it
conveys exactly what that line does: "$discard the output of this method call".