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Posted October 23, 2015 12:35pm by

You can also import without the underscore.

It's not a question but just a note that you can also import without putting the underscore.

@import "variables"

And you can omit the "scss".

October 23, 2015 1:23pm

The underscore is used to denote that the file is a partial, meaning that it shouldn't be rendered into css. Depending on the setup of the compiler, if you didn't use an underscore, it could end up generating more than one file, in your example it would create a variables.css.

This details the explanation a little better:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31311147/underscore-in-partial-sass-file

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October 23, 2015 2:35pm

Luke is correct. The _ in the file name keeps that file from being compiled into it's own css file.

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