Usage in Code
The terms are very often used in programming examples, much like the Hello World program is commonly used as an introduction. For example, foo and bar might be used to illustrate a simple string concatenation:
/* C code */ #includeAdditional examples of the use of foo and bar in code are given in the entry on metasyntactic variables.
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