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Re: Dum1...?


From: Nicholas Jankowski
Subject: Re: Dum1...?
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:11:20 -0500

Without more context, I'd say this is a metasyntactic variable [1], a
variable that is meant to mean nothing particular and serves the purpose of
writing an example: other famous examples are "foo" and "bar".

Pantxo

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable


Wow.  I was going to write more about how much effort has gone into such a definition, but I think wow covers it.

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