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[Dave LeYanna]

At 09:20 PM 1/31/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>
>>Now, if he would have said "foobar"
>
>another programmers term whose meaning i have been looking
>for for years. Can you enlighten me?

Simply a universal variable used to represent a generic contextual item 
while discussing or explaining something. "Foo" and "Bar" can also be used 
when a couple of things need to be referenced during the explanation. 
Probably started at MIT or somewhere. Not very often found in Windows 
programming lingo. (they are to young to have been exposed to such an 
arcane but useful expression <g>).

It is much better to use to avoid confusion: For example which is clearer: 
"set var to 3" or "set foobar to 3" var could be some kind of keyword while 
foobar is known to be replace with a "real" object.

djl

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>Regards
>
>Klaus Major
>k_major at os.surf2000.de
>
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