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> On Feb 23, 2014, at 17:09, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> For the benefit of newbies, besides the obvious indentation error above, t=
he underscore basically acts as a dummy variable.  I'll let the language law=
yers give a very detailed, precise description :)

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



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