Standard conventions for indicating a function argument is unused in JavaScript
javascript, naming-conventions, unused-variables
Solution
Just so we have an example to work from, this is fairly common with jQuery's `$.each` where you're writing code that doesn't need the index, just the value, in the iteration callback and you're using `this` (which jQuery also sets to the value) for something else:
$.each(objectOrArrayLikeThing, (_, value) => {
// Use `value` here
});
(Yes, `$.each` passes arguments to the callback backward compared to the JavaScript standard `forEach`.)
Using `_` is the closest I've seen to a standard way to do that, yes, but I've also seen lots of others — giving it a name reflective of its purpose anyway (`index`), combining those (`_index`), calling it `unused`, etc.
If you need to ignore more than one parameter, you can't repeat the same identifier (it's disallowed in strict mode, which should be everyone's default and is the default in modules and `class` constructs), so you have do things like `_0` and `_1` or `_` and `__`, etc. I've almost never had to do that, but when I have, I've used a name indicating what the parameter's value would be (`_index` for the `$.each` example, for instance).
Problem
Are there any standard ways of marking a function argument as unused in JavaScript, analogous to starting a method argument with an underscore in Ruby?