On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:18:59AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I think the canonical name is "metasyntactic variable" [1]. I've
> > seen also just "metavariable", although Wikipedia would say that
> > the latter belongs in the realm of logic [2], not programming.
>
> AFAICT those two usages
> I think the canonical name is "metasyntactic variable" [1]. I've
> seen also just "metavariable", although Wikipedia would say that
> the latter belongs in the realm of logic [2], not programming.
AFAICT those two usages are one and the same: when you see "foo" it's
because the code is actually
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