On Saturday, May 18, 2002, at 08:42 , Chris Ball wrote: [..] > > foo and bar are 'meta-syntactic variables'; variables names that we use > when describing how programs work, to show that we're talking about > something that could be any variable. You can read about them at: > > http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/metasyntactic-variable.html
http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/FUBAR.html cf also http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/foo.html it should be noted that Orthodox members of the church of the subgenius always iterate from bob when enumerating meta-syntactical variables.... cf: http://www.subgenius.com/ since there is a little bit of bob in everything. For without the True Bob, there would be But the Anti-Bob, and your code would never run.... When you obtain the True Slack, you will know the whole of Perl, and the world will collapse in on itself, as you meet the wall.... ciao drieux --- they made me write that.... The voices in my head are having more fun than me.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]