Re: Stupid questions...

From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 03/09/04

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    Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:14:02 -0600
To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:

    > Quintin Riis wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
    >> | peter lageotakes wrote:
    >> |
    >> |> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html
    >> |>
    >> |> --- DerAlSem <DerAlSem@inbox.ru> wrote:
    >> |>
    >> |>
    >> |>> Hello freebsd-newbies,
    >> |>>
    >> |>> Who or what is foo bar?
    >> |>>
    >> |>> Does any one can tell me? I see this everywhere
    >> |>> and everyday in man
    >> |>> and other docs...
    >> |>>
    >> |>> --
    >> |>> Best regards,
    >> |>> DerAlSem mailto:DerAlSem@inbox.ru
    >> |>>
    >> |
    >> |
    >> | Hmm, shouldn't the definitive reference be:
    >> |
    >> | http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html
    >> |
    >> | And really, you should read the entry on
    >> | "metasyntactic variables" for a fuller understanding....
    >> |
    >> | http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html
    >> |
    >> | Kevin Kinsey
    >> | DaleCo, S.P.
    >> |
    >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    >> | Foo on your metasyntax!!
    >> |
    >> | if ($foo==$bar) {
    >> | for ($baz=0; $baz<$qux; $baz++) {
    >> |
    >> | $quux=$baz;
    >> | if ($garply['quux']==$waldo) {
    >> |
    >> | echo $thud;
    >> | } }
    >> | }
    >
    If I had to guess id say PHP also:
    if the variable $foo equals $bar do the following:
            set $quux to equal $baz untill $baz is greater then $qux by
    incrementing baz by 1 every time it loops.
            otherwise if the (starts to get lost now) value for quux in the
    hash $garply equals the value in the variable $waldo do the following:
                 display whatever is in the variable $thud
    the end;
    I'm better with Perl

    >>
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    >>
    >> Damn GNU braces.. tell me you don't use those yourself! :P
    >>
    >> Quintin
    >>
    > Heh, I don't even know what language
    > that is ... probably nothing would run that
    > as is. It's probably closest to PHP, which is
    > darn forgiving, right?
    >
    > Lately I've been using whatever layout
    > SciTE forces upon me ;-)
    >
    > Oh, and (all in good fun) ... darn top-posters!
    > Tell me you're not in that habit!!! :p
    >
    > KDK
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