Mat, Is the origin of Foo bar from the "Grand Foo Bar" from a masonic lodge? a very U.S. centric source?. I also find it all but useless myself, I have to read something 5 times if it has too many foos and bars because there is not any other information contained within them. The fact that someone does not need to think to use foo bar belies that fact, I can see that a little more thinking would have being helpful. It may appear to make sense to the writer, but I suspect it is often more confusing for the reader.
Over the years I have used consistent examples like Fred, Alice and Bob, Fruits and number suffixes number-1 or "if-true" var-1, input etc.... I understand Foo and Bar but find it the least helpful of the bunch. Watts funny lines struck a chord. *Has my plea been footile? It has just the opposite effect on me, I can't stop thinking 'what's a foo?' I must be foolexic, or was on a bar stool the day they covered it at school. Couldn't 'apples' be used instead?* just saying.. Regards Tony On Tuesday, July 9, 2019 at 1:20:34 AM UTC+10, Mat wrote: > > @Watt >> >> > Foo, foobar etc was invented specifically so you don't have to think. Plus > it is now a convention so if you introduce something else, then people will > have to get used to that instead. For a single string I guess HelloThere > would work but it is not generic. And for multiple strings... it is > annoyingliy difficult to come up with anything that is not asdfasdöghhagsöj > which is also not good. Besides, bars can be nice. > > In the docs I do thing we avoid Foo though. > > <:-) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ca73e168-f93d-472e-81ef-08a4060e40d6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
