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Re: FOO vs FO


At 11:35 07/09/01 +0200, you wrote:
>The Jargon File mentions quz, qaz and qoz as placeholders (IIRC) but
>i've never seen them used extensively.
>
>Some GNU sources use "mumble" if foo, bar and baz has already been
>used up.
>
> > I think we are asymptotically approaching some kind of "knowledge" on this
> > important question.
>
>Just added my 20 milliEuro.
>
>J.Pietschmann

Just to add to the discussion, the french code has some particularity (as 
we often like to).

Essentially, the base is not "foobar", but "toto", wich is a first name for 
child used in jokes, and usually a very annoying and dumb child. Any french 
know some "histoires de toto" ("toto stories").

Since one word is never enough, you get a lot of derivative : "tata", 
"tutu", "titi", etc. which makes lines like :
<xsl:call-template name="toto">
         <xsl:with-param name="tata" select="2"/>
</xsl:call-template>

Which makes things much more readable :-)

Just to add some more euros...


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