# Simpleton Syntax Question

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**Created:** [June 2, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simpleton-syntax-question/289595 "2009-06-02T10:44:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeancnicolas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jeancnicolas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jeancnicolas)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simpleton-syntax-question/289595/1 "2009-06-02T10:44:13Z")

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Ok - So ive been moving onto AS3. And during the change over from AS2, I have begun to notice that as a standard practice in writing classes etc, that people are coding with an awful lot of use of the underscore … ie… var \_myx:Number = 5; private var \_children:Array; etc …  
Is there an explainable reason for why people are adopting this way of writing? As of presently, it makes me feel sick looking at, as if ive missed something out.

thanks for any bulb to aid the dark