From: Sampo Niskanen Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: what's "foo"? Date: 7 Nov 1997 16:52:56 GMT Organization: Xgateway Finland Ltd. - news.xgw.fi server Lines: 11 Message-ID: <63vh18$6vc@news.xgw.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lizard.compart.fi To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk > I've seen "foo" poping up in lot of djgpp and at&t unix documentations. Another one is "bar". What are they, and why are they the standard name for anything that hasn't got a given name? -- __________________________________________________ /____\ Sampo Niskanen <=> sampo AT compart DOT fi \ \ http://www.compart.fi/~sampo \ \ ________________________________________\___ \___/___________________________________________/