What is The Foo ?

[ZagSlug]

From Wikipedia

Foo is a metasyntactic variable used heavily in computer science to represent concepts abstractly and can be used to represent any part of a complicated system or idea including the data, variables, functions, and commands just to name a few. Foo is commonly used with the metasyntactic variables bar and foobar. The word foo itself has no meaning and is merely a commonly used logical representation that is used much like the letters 'X' and 'Y' in algebra.

[a13coach]

main(){
foo(bar());
return 0 ;
}

[lothar98zag]

foo(bar

Foo bar = FUBAR

[RenoZag]

Bush = FUBAR

[kitzbuel]

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[kitzbuel]

You know that if you reply to this topic, the top of the page says Foo, Foo??

[SammamiZag]

Hopefully this won't get so out of hand that there will be forums called "bar", "baz", "quux", and "quuuux"

if (!(gonzaga.win))
{
foobar = true;
MessageBox.Show("ARGHGHGH!!!!!");
return;
}

[Zag79]

FOO-bu.

[UberZagFan]

FOO-bu.

Foo you.

[UberZagFan]

Is bowser bowser on this forum?

[a13coach]

Hopefully this won't get so out of hand that there will be forums called "bar", "baz", "quux", and "quuuux"

if (!(gonzaga.win))
{
foobar = true;
MessageBox.Show("ARGHGHGH!!!!!");
return;
}

Why set the foobar flag true if you are not going to use it? Why not override Messagbox.Show and send foobar as the arg and have it do the work?

[SammamiZag]

Why set the foobar flag true if you are not going to use it? Why not override Messagbox.Show and send foobar as the arg and have it do the work?

Good call. I'm glad this board also has a built-in compiler that throws good errors and warnings!

[a13coach]

But then again you could take the Perl approach.
"There's more than one way to do it."

Far be it for me to parse someone's code...got beat up plenty of times during code reviews.

[lothar98zag]

This thread is starting to make my head hurt

[a13coach]

Sandbagging are you?

Lothar,
I thought for sure all this was old hat to you.