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Golang be like (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by mycroftholmess@lemm.ee to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The underscore is used in production code too. It's a legitimate way to tell the compiler to discard the object because you don't intend to use the pointer/value.