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Metasyntactic variable

A metasyntactic variable is a specific word or set of words identified as a placeholder in computer science and specifically computer programming. These words are commonly found in source code and are intended to be modified or substituted before real-world usage. For example, foo and bar are used in over 330 Internet Engineering Task Force Requests for…

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Common metasyntactic variables

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Metasyntactic variable

Nodes54
Edges53
Triples38
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037037
Components1

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Metasyntactic variable

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related to External links · 5
Metasyntactic variable → Commonwealth Hackish, Definition, Examples, Other Programming Oddities, Variable
related to General usage · 5
Metasyntactic variable → Colossal Cave Adventure, Metasyntactic, MIT Press, The Hacker's Dictionary, Two
related to IETF Requests for Comments · 5
Metasyntactic variable → Both, Here, IETF, IETF RFCs, RFC
related to Python · 5
Metasyntactic variable → In, Monty Python, Python, Spam, This
related to Turkish · 5
Metasyntactic variable → ASCII-only, Cem Yılmaz, In Turkey, LeMan, The
is a · 2
Metasyntactic variable → specific word or set of words identified as a placeholder in computer science and specifically computer programming, word that is a variable for other words
related to C · 2
Metasyntactic variable → In, Lines
related to Japanese · 2
Metasyntactic variable → In Japanese, The

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Metasyntactic variableis aspecific word or set of words identified as a placeholder in computer science and specifically computer programming0.90text
Metasyntactic variableis aword that is a variable for other words0.90text
variablesinstance ofMetasyntactic variables are used to name entities0.80text
functionsinstance ofMetasyntactic variables are used to name entities0.80text
and commands whose exact identity is unimportantinstance ofMetasyntactic variables are used to name entities0.80text
serve only to demonstrate a conceptinstance ofMetasyntactic variables are used to name entities0.80text
which is useful for teaching programminginstance ofMetasyntactic variables are used to name entities0.80text
Microsoftinstance ofa common practice with in many educational texts as well as technical documentation from companies0.80text
Oracleinstance ofa common practice with in many educational texts as well as technical documentation from companies0.80text
Metasyntactic variablerelated to CIn0.60section
Metasyntactic variablerelated to CLines0.60section
Metasyntactic variablerelated to External linksDefinition0.60section

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