What's _this_ mean?

[Bradlis7]

Does it make you cool if you use _these_ thingy's?? I evedentally didn't get the memo of what it exactly does or means. I've seen it multiple places, and I was just wondering where it came from.

[jale2ice]

I believe it's just a preference of a programer to write with the underscore (no whitespace) for compatability with certain programing languages/systems. I guess they're so used to writing code, that when they write, they can't help themselves but to think that they are still coding...

That's just a thought for discussion's sake!

[Bradlis7]

Originally Posted by jale2ice

I believe it's just a preference of a programer to write with the underscore (no whitespace) for compatability with certain programing languages/systems. I guess they're so used to writing code, that when they write, they can't help themselves but to think that they are still coding...

That's just a thought for discussion's sake!

Hehe, I guess that's a good explanation. Seems like a good way to emphazise words tho, if you're to lazy to do [b.]bla [/b.]. I _might_ put this to use .

[dirtyepic]

well back when you didn't _have_ bbcode or anything except ascii text, how else would you show emphasis?

[Emily]

it's a very old convention for bold

[jcstille]

Both explanations are right, but filenames used to not be allowed to have white spaces and so that was a good way, and programming langueges today are still white space sensitive in titles of methods, classes (for java), package names, etc... so adds useability.

[Jman]

Usually to emphasise. Sometimes to replace a space. See hacker writing style in the Jargon file.