10 Nov
2011
10 Nov
'11
11:54 a.m.
Hi,
My preference goes to $discard since it had the closest semantically
meaningful relation to what the variable actually does. Or, in
the variable's own voice: "use me, discard me".
Guillaume
PS: note that's it's a preference, not a strong feeling
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Andreas Jonsson
<aj(a)member.fsf.org>
wrote:
How about:
9. $void
+1, that's what I'm using usually too
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Thomas Mortagne
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2011-11-10 08:05, Vincent Massol skrev:
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> Some methods must be captured so that they don't create output when
called from velocity, usually with something like:
>>
>> #set ($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
We can also think of:
7. $dummy (I always use this one)
8. $unused
But I don't have a strong opion about this.
>> $ok is the shortest, thus easier to type, faster to parse, and lighter
on
the total size of the wiki.
>
> The size is definitely a bad argument. Let's remove all comments it'll
slim down the wiki size… yeah! :)
>
> Faster to type is also not a good argument. Using meaningful variable
names is
better.
>
>> 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".
They're all fine with me except $output.
Thanks
-Vincent
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