Wikipedia: History of Metasyntactic variable

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Paraphrasing the Jargon file [here]:

A metasyntactic variable is a name used in examples and understood by hackers to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion. The word foo is the canonical example.

A metasyntactic variable is a name used in examples and understood by hackers to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion. The word foo is the canonical example.

Added: 7a6,7

An earlier version of the above paraphrased a Jargon file article[here].

	Revision 4 . . (edit) December 18, 2001 7:31 am by Taw [format fix]
	Revision 3 . . December 13, 2001 1:00 am by Larry Sanger
	Revision 2 . . (edit) December 13, 2001 12:17 am by Cayzle [very minor copy edit]
	Revision 1 . . September 26, 2001 4:59 pm by BlckKnght [new entry, mostly from the Jargon File]