Re: Why does the meaning (and spelling) of words change?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 20:50 |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:08:14PM -0700, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> For ex, the very first reflex of
> any programmer, when creating a file for test, is
> calling it "TOTO".
So TOTO would be the first French metasyntactic variable name
("metavariable" for short). The most common English series begins FOO,
BAR; it then diverges somewhat, but again the most common continuation
is BAZ, QUUX, and some people continue by inserting Us, thus QUUUX,
QUUUUX, etc.
These are only for temporary files, generic examples in doc, etc. If
you use such names for anything important you deserve to have it
deleted. :)
http://www.clueless.com/jargon3.0.0/metasyntactic_variable.html
-Mark
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