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Gorp /gorp/ N. [CMU
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gorp /gorp/ n.
[CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's
food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another metasyntactic variable, like
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gorp: /gorp/ [CMU: perhaps from the canonical hiker's food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts] Another {metasyntactic variable}, like {foo} and {bar}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
hud n. 1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo).
It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....
hud: n. 1. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....
garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
once popular among SAIL hackers....
grault /grawlt/ n. Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by GOSMACS documentation.
See corge....
corge /korj/ n. [originally, the name of a cat] Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the GOSMACS documentation.
See grault....
garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
once popular among SAIL hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
See {corge}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...