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Re: Functions help

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> On Feb 23, 2014, at 17:09, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> For the benefit of newbies, besides the obvious indentation error above, the underscore basically acts as a dummy variable.  I'll let the language lawyers give a very detailed, precise description :)

You mean a dummy name binding, right? If we say "variable" we might confuse those newly arrived pilgrims from other language kingdom.



(If you squint hard, I think there's some <facetious> tags in there :) )

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    Re: Functions help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-24 01:09 +0000
      Re: Functions help alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 11:39 +1000
        Re: Functions help Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2014-02-23 18:55 -0800
          Re: Functions help Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-24 15:38 +0000
        Re: Functions help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-24 03:21 +0000
          Re: Functions help rurpy@yahoo.com - 2014-02-23 20:01 -0800
            Re: Functions help Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-24 13:59 +0000
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      Re: Functions help Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-23 20:28 -0500
    Re: Functions help Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 17:27 -0800
  Re: Functions help "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.org.uk> - 2014-02-24 01:01 +0000
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