Metasyntactic thingies

Rhodri James rhodri at kynesim.co.uk
Mon Jun 18 07:09:32 EDT 2018


On 17/06/18 10:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 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?

Sometimes I "mangle()" things, but I'm usually boring. 
"do_something()", "do_something_else()" or (if I'm feeling particularly 
nostalgic and helpless) "do_something_muttley()".

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd



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