[Dragaera] Distractions, unrelated, caused by poll answers
Philip Hart
philiph at slac.stanford.edu
Thu Jul 5 13:14:55 PDT 2007
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, A.S. Zanoni wrote:
> Foo and bar, nope, not so much. :D I remember they're some kind of
> commands and safe from such mental diversions.
Just for the record, these are (afaik anyway) just metasyntactic
variables, aka placeholders, in computer programming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
I used "loofah" because of the assonance with "foobar".
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