foo
- noun
- /fuː/
- Jargon
- For example, foo x=1 gets counter 1, foo y=2 gets counter 2, and so on.
- foo egg
- foo fighter
- bunny foo
It's instead going to have bracket Foo and bracket Baz.
- It's instead going to have bracket Foo and bracket Baz.
Examples
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For example, foo x=1 gets counter 1, foo y=2 gets counter 2, and so on.
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We're going to have things like a symbol like Foo matches exactly itself.
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Also, you should probably remember that foo * bar and foo bar are not the same thing.
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Also, you should probably remember that foo * bar and foo bar are not the same thing.
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It makes a list of instance of Foo and it prints.
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Undefined is a valid value in the same way that foo where foo = foo is a valid value.
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In this way, initialization of Foo results in the initialization of Bar.
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In this programming tutorial, we use Foo as a placeholder to illustrate different coding concepts.
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The function requires a variable called Foo to store the result of the calculation.
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When developing the software, we often refer to Foo in our examples to simplify complex processes.
Synonyms
A symbol or letter that stands for an unknown number
A simple name in computer examples that stands for a value
A name used temporarily for a person or thing when the real name is unknown
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Foo as a noun is a simple example name used by programmers, coming from the old nonsense word and the pair foo and bar that people long used in examples. So when you see foo in code it just stands for 'any name' you can replace.