metasyntactic variable

English

Noun

metasyntactic variable (plural metasyntactic variables)

1. (chiefly programming) A conventional variable name used for an unspecified entity whose exact nature depends on context.

   Use metasyntactic variables like foo and bar when you need a name but the particular name doesn't matter.

Translations

in computing

• Finnish: metasyntaktinen muuttuja
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: metavariabel

See also

• foo
• bar
• baz
• quux
• fnord
• fum
• shme
• zot
• foobar
• fred
• wibble
• derp