Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:14:02 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid questions... Message-ID: <404DFB5A.2050505@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <404CE8CB.6020507@daleco.biz> References: <20040308081710.14145.qmail@web14603.mail.yahoo.com> <404C8787.9000507@daleco.biz> <404CAB6C.2090802@countrypure.net> <404CE8CB.6020507@daleco.biz>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Quintin Riis wrote: > >> >> Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: >> | peter lageotakes wrote: >> | >> |> http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html >> |> >> |> --- DerAlSem <DerAlSem@inbox.ru> wrote: >> |> >> |> >> |>> Hello freebsd-newbies, >> |>> >> |>> Who or what is foo bar? >> |>> >> |>> Does any one can tell me? I see this everywhere >> |>> and everyday in man >> |>> and other docs... >> |>> >> |>> -- >> |>> Best regards, >> |>> DerAlSem mailto:DerAlSem@inbox.ru >> |>> >> | >> | >> | Hmm, shouldn't the definitive reference be: >> | >> | http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/F/foo.html >> | >> | And really, you should read the entry on >> | "metasyntactic variables" for a fuller understanding.... >> | >> | http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html >> | >> | Kevin Kinsey >> | DaleCo, S.P. >> | >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> | Foo on your metasyntax!! >> | >> | if ($foo==$bar) { >> | for ($baz=0; $baz<$qux; $baz++) { >> | >> | $quux=$baz; >> | if ($garply['quux']==$waldo) { >> | >> | echo $thud; >> | } } >> | } > If I had to guess id say PHP also: if the variable $foo equals $bar do the following: set $quux to equal $baz untill $baz is greater then $qux by incrementing baz by 1 every time it loops. otherwise if the (starts to get lost now) value for quux in the hash $garply equals the value in the variable $waldo do the following: display whatever is in the variable $thud the end; I'm better with Perl >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Damn GNU braces.. tell me you don't use those yourself! :P >> >> Quintin >> > Heh, I don't even know what language > that is ... probably nothing would run that > as is. It's probably closest to PHP, which is > darn forgiving, right? > > Lately I've been using whatever layout > SciTE forces upon me ;-) > > Oh, and (all in good fun) ... darn top-posters! > Tell me you're not in that habit!!! :p > > KDK > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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