From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 8 13:42:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB8D16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E5A43D31 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:42:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:43:01 -0600 Message-ID: <404CE8CB.6020507@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:42:35 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Quintin Riis References: <20040308081710.14145.qmail@web14603.mail.yahoo.com> <404C8787.9000507@daleco.biz> <404CAB6C.2090802@countrypure.net> In-Reply-To: <404CAB6C.2090802@countrypure.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Mar 2004 21:43:02.0390 (UTC) FILETIME=[54F53960:01C40556] cc: DerAlSem cc: peter lageotakes cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid questions... X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:42:39 -0000 Quintin Riis wrote: > > Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > | peter lageotakes wrote: > | > |> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html > |> > |> --- DerAlSem 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; > | } } > | } > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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