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- From: "Lorraine E. Long" <llong@nwu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Stupid Question: What does
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 03:51:45 GMT
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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- Just Curious wrote:
- >
- > Does anyone know what the generic function name "foo" stands for?
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- In addition to the definition already sent, "foo" is used as a
- placeholder for a variable, function, person, e.g.,
- foo@somewhere.domain. For a huge discussion of the word, take a look
- at the New Hacker's Dictionary web page:
- http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html.
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