[Haskell-cafe] ANN: pandoc 1.0.0.1

[Max Bolingbroke]

2008/9/14 John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>:
> 2) Variable x defined but not used
>
> I most often ignore this when it occurs in a function definition.
> Sometimes I may have a function that could be written
>
> foo _ (x, _) _ = bar (x + 5)
>
> But for clarity's sake on what all the unused args are, which really
> helps for future maintainability, I'll usually use a descriptive --
> but unused -- variable name.

This doesn't appear to be commonly known, but actually any identifier
that /starts/ with an _ will not trigger the unused-arg warning. So if
you wrote your example like this:

foo _stuff (x, _y) _more = bar (x + 5)

It would satisfy both the compiler and your desire for descriptive
variable names.

Cheers,
Max