Metasyntactic thingies

[Steven D'Aprano]

We know the placeholder names used for generic variables:

    foo bar baz foobar ...

and the Pythonic equivalents:

    spam eggs cheese aardvark ...


But what placeholder names do you use for functions, methods or other 
actions? As in, placeholder verbs rather than nouns?

Aside from such boring ones as "do_work" and similar, the only 
placeholder verb I can think of is frobnicate.

Does anyone else have any?




    "Why do you keep saying wossname?" said Rincewind.
    "Limited wossname. Doodah. Thingy. You know, it's got words
    in it," said the parrot.
    "Dictionary?" said Rincewind.
    -- Terry Pratchett, "Eric"




-- 
Steven D'Aprano