Jesse Mullan

Names for variables

Written on Tuesday, the 7^th of December, 2004 at 12:33 am and was filed under: Diversions, Nerdity

For some reason I am compelled to write these down:
foo
bar
baz
monkey
pirate
ninja

That is the sequence. Ignore any imposters.

4 Responses to “Names for variables ”

1. 
   Beckett said on January 7th, 2005 at 10:12 pm

   This is *uncannily* like the sequence I use for variable naming in example code!
   Only my order is always: foo, bar, monkeys, bananas, pirates, and blub.

2. 
   Jesse Mullan said on January 8th, 2005 at 1:26 am

   Hmm. Maybe I should add banana. Bananas are good, and hard to confuse with real things.

   Oh, hey, “metasyntactic variables.”
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
   and
   http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html
   where it is stated that baz is the third in the MIT series. People who know me know that MIT has a special place in my heart for no reason at all.

3. 
   Paul Armstrong said on May 30th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

   I want a banana sticker.

4. 
   Jesse said on May 30th, 2007 at 3:45 pm

   For Paul: