[PHP] foo? bar? wtf?

2001-08-29 Thread Seb Frost

Why is it that every example uses foo and bar.  In my head I put these
together to get FUBAR, the meaning of which I won't spell out for Kyle's
benefit.

Is this what foo and bar refer to?  And WHY are they used so extensively?

- seb
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Re: [PHP] foo? bar? wtf?

2001-08-29 Thread Philip Olson

see :

 http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=foo
 http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=bar

pretty interesting :)

regards,
Philip Olson

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Seb Frost wrote:

 Why is it that every example uses foo and bar.  In my head I put these
 together to get FUBAR, the meaning of which I won't spell out for Kyle's
 benefit.
 
 Is this what foo and bar refer to?  And WHY are they used so extensively?
 
 - seb
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Re: [PHP] foo? bar? wtf?

2001-08-29 Thread Christian Dechery

At 20:11 29/8/2001 +0100, you wrote:
Why is it that every example uses foo and bar.  In my head I put these
together to get FUBAR, the meaning of which I won't spell out for Kyle's
benefit.

Is this what foo and bar refer to?  And WHY are they used so extensively?

they don't mean anything... but I think they refer to FUBAR.

Do you know what FUBAR is right?

F*CKED UP BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION.

heheh :)

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. Christian Dechery (lemming)
. http://www.tanamesa.com.br
. Gaita-L Owner / Web Developer


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