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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: underscore as keyword in Java 9
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:29:53 -0000 (UTC)
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Silvio <silvio@internet.com> wrote:
> I personally think _ as a throw-out identifier is not very useful. If 
> you do not want a name then change the grammar to allow leaving it out 
> at the first place, like C++ did.

Good point.

> I do like what Scala also does with the _ identifier (it also uses it as 
> throw-out identifier). In Scala [...]

That's likely what Brian Goetz referred to in his mail from back in 2013
(see OP for link to mail) :

" [...], except that we are certainly NOT going to do Scala's "wunderbar".