1 year ago
#378527
user3758232
Single underscore as unused variable name in function signature?
I am building an interface in C which defines some function types with predefined signatures. Some implementations of this interface may not use some of the passed variables.
Is it a good / reasonable practice to use a Python-style single underscore in implementations that don't use certain arguments? The purpose is readability, but I don't know if that would confuse other devs reading the code even more.
E.g.:
// Interface definition
typedef int (*do_something_fn_t)(int a, float b);
typedef struct {
char *name;
do_something_fn_t do_something_fn;
} MyInterface;
// Implementation
int complex_calculation (int a, float _)
{ return a + 1; }
const MyInterface super_useful_int = {
.name = "Super useful interface",
.do_something_fn = complex_calculation,
};
c
naming-conventions
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