On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:18:59AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I think the canonical name is "metasyntactic variable" [1]. I've
> > seen also just "metavariable", although Wikipedia would say that
> > the latter belongs in the realm of logic [2], not programming.
>
> AFAICT those two usages a
> I think the canonical name is "metasyntactic variable" [1]. I've
> seen also just "metavariable", although Wikipedia would say that
> the latter belongs in the realm of logic [2], not programming.
AFAICT those two usages are one and the same: when you see "foo" it's
because the code is actually
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 08:07:16AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
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> On Tuesday, December 03, 2019 07:16:22 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > With 'find' instead of 'locate'.
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> It took me a minute (well, a trial) to realize that dir_with_repos is a
> metaname (right word?). I prefer a
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