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What (who) is foobar - definition

PLACEHOLDER NAMES IN PROGRAMMING
User:Gwicke~enwiki/sandbox; Foo bar; Foo Bar; User:Nixeagle/test; Foo; Bar (computer science); FOo; Fooian; User:Eagle 101/test; FOOBAR; Baz (computer science); User:Riki-test/sandbox/RedirectToFoo; Foo (computing); Foo and bar; Barfoo; Foobarbaz
  • [[Smokey Stover]]<!-- no italics, character’s name --> driving a "foomobile"

foobar         
A programer's placeholder.
Used in examples to fill in for the name of something that isn't important to the class names, table names, function names. See fubar in slang dictionaries.
sql selectselect * from foobarinteger declarationint foobar = 10;
foobar         
<jargon> Another common metasyntactic variable; see foo. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean FUBAR in either the slang or jargon sense. According to a german correspondent, the term was coined during WW2 by allied troops who could not pronounce the german word "furchtbar" (horrible, terrible, awful). [Jargon File] (2003-07-03)
FOOBAR         
FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (Reference: RFC 1639, FTP)

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Foobar

The terms foobar (), foo, bar, baz, and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to demonstrate a concept.