Jules Copeland wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm teaching myself RoR, and I've found myself on this forum a fair few > times when looking for solutions to problems. > > I've also found many other sites with help forums and tutorials as well. > > This may seem like a petulant request, but please for the love of all > things holy, can people stop using foo and bar in code demos and > tutorials please? > > It may be because I'm very new to this and I have to work through every > step one by one, but I can't help being reminded of those IQ test > questions e.g: > > "All Blobs are Zweezils, and some Zweezils are BoingBoings, does this > mean all Blobs are BoingsBoings?" > > I'm guessing the nerdier among you felt the need to figure that one out. > But if I'd written: > > "All RoR developers are nerds; some nerds are uncomfortable in social > situations. Does this mean all RoR developers are uncomfortable in > social situations? > > I assume most of you made sense of that immediately and came up with the > answer 'no'. > > Using Foo and Bar, just seems to add another level of mental processing > to go through before you can start grasping the concepts of what's being > explained. > > I appreciate that sometimes, real world examples might make it more > complicated if the words/variable names being used seem to overlap with > what might be Ruby code (to a newbie at least). > > Can I just ask for a little bit of imagination when giving examples > please? > > (Sorry to come on here and rant in my first ever post, I just figured > this would be a good place to get it seen - I hope I'm not alone in my > frustration). > > Cheers, > > Jules.
I actually agree with you, but I still like using it because Foobar is an old Military term from Fubar which I used to use all the time. Anyone wanna take a stab at what "Fubar" means? ;) I'll give you a hint. ____ Up Beyond All Recognition Try having that one stuck in your head everytime you see an example. ~Jeremy -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
