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A code review story about a mysterious unused line in C#: `_ = len / 8.0f;`. The underscore convention is used to suppress linter warnings about unused variables, but the line itself has no discernible purpose — no one knows why the division by 8.0f was there or what it was meant to do. It was eventually removed, but had lingered in the codebase for a long time.

Underscore Its Unimportance

<p>This is why commit messages matters kids.</p>
<p>The most likely scenario here, is that the person adding the underscore wasn’t the one who introduced the variable. The person most likely just faced the Linter complaining, had no idea if it was safe to remove, and opted to silence it instead.</p>
