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Grault /grawlt/ N. Yet Another Metasyntactic Variable, Invented By Mike Gallaher And Propagated By GOSMACS Documentation.
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grault /grawlt/ n.
Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by
GOSMACS documentation. See corge.
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grault: /grawlt/ n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
See {corge}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
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....
corge: /korj/ [originally, the name of a cat] n. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by the {GOSMACS} documentation.
See {grault}. -- 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....
garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
once popular among SAIL hackers....
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'....
foobar n. [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable
ee foo for etymology. Prob originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960s and early 1970...
garply: /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo})
once popular among SAIL hackers. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...