[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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