[Tutor] what is foo bar?

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Walter Hanagriff wrote:

> the words foo and bar are used so much in examples, why? 

Tradition. Just like using x for a variable name or i for a counter.

> was that it was poor style, does foo and bar, or just foo or 
> bar actually do something
> or just useful as example names of variables, modules and 
> such?

fubar = "f*cked up beyond all recognition" probably had something to do
with splitting it into foo + bar. :)

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