Re: Metasyntactic thingies

2018-06-18 Thread Rhodri James
On 17/06/18 10:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote: But what placeholder names do you use for functions, methods or other actions? As in, placeholder verbs rather than nouns? Aside from such boring ones as "do_work" and similar, the only placeholder verb I can think of is frobnicate. Does anyone else hav

Re: Metasyntactic thingies

2018-06-17 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano writes: > But what placeholder names do you use for functions, methods or other > actions? As in, placeholder verbs rather than nouns? I find Lewis Carroll's canon to be a rich source of pronounceable nonsense words. The poem Jabberwocky is particularly valuable https://en.wikipe

Metasyntactic thingies

2018-06-17 Thread Steven D'Aprano
We know the placeholder names used for generic variables: foo bar baz foobar ... and the Pythonic equivalents: spam eggs cheese aardvark ... But what placeholder names do you use for functions, methods or other actions? As in, placeholder verbs rather than nouns? Aside from such bori