jQuery's $ and lodash's _ are not prepended to a symbol to denote a variable. Bo...

nobleach on March 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern PHP

jQuery's $ and lodash's _ are not prepended to a symbol to denote a variable. Both are objects actually. In the case of jQuery, $ === jQuery (the root jQuery object). The case that the parent is talking about is PHP's requirement that all variables are denoted as such `$variable_name`. (Perl and Bash also do this)

dylan604 on March 27, 2022 [–]

i forget that's what's actually being done under the hood.