Stupid questions...

Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. kdk at daleco.biz
Mon Mar 8 13:42:39 PST 2004


Quintin Riis wrote:

>
> Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> | peter lageotakes wrote:
> |
> |> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html
> |>
> |> --- DerAlSem <DerAlSem at inbox.ru> wrote:
> |>
> |>
> |>> Hello freebsd-newbies,
> |>>
> |>>  Who or what is foo bar?
> |>>
> |>>  Does any one can tell me? I see this everywhere
> |>> and everyday in man
> |>>  and other docs...
> |>>
> |>> --
> |>> Best regards,
> |>> DerAlSem                         mailto:DerAlSem at inbox.ru
> |>>
> |
> |
> | Hmm, shouldn't the definitive reference be:
> |
> | http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html
> |
> | And really, you should read the entry on
> | "metasyntactic variables" for a fuller understanding....
> |
> | http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html
> |
> | Kevin Kinsey
> | DaleCo, S.P.
> | 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Foo on your metasyntax!!
> |
> | if ($foo==$bar) {
> |        for ($baz=0; $baz<$qux; $baz++) {
> |
> |          $quux=$baz;
> |          if ($garply['quux']==$waldo) {
> |
> |               echo $thud;
> |          }          }
> | }
>
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> Damn GNU braces.. tell me you don't use those yourself! :P
>
>         Quintin
>
Heh, I don't even know what language
that is ... probably nothing would run that
as is.  It's probably closest to PHP, which is
darn forgiving, right?

Lately I've been using whatever layout
SciTE forces upon me ;-)

Oh, and (all in good fun) ... darn top-posters!
Tell me you're not in that habit!!! :p

KDK


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