>>>>> "Cathy" == CATHY GEAR (TRUST HQ)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes:
Cathy> But sometimes I don't hold out much hope as I don't
Cathy> understand the significance of foo or bar!
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
- Chris.
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