Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!gdr!mapjilg From: mapjilg@gdr.bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: What is... Message-ID: <1990Jan4.104858.16079@gdt.bath.ac.uk> Date: 4 Jan 90 10:48:58 GMT Reply-To: mapjilg@gdr.bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold) Organization: University of Bath, England Lines: 11 Will SOMEONE please tell me why in source code snippets the variables "foo","bar","foobar" and other variants invariably appear? J.Gold mapjilg@uk.ac.bath.gdr -- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Paranoia is thinking that if something CAN'T go wrong it will still go wrong.# #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # J.Gold | mapjilg@uk.ac.bath.gdr #