From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023): bar 1. <programming, convention> /bar/ The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. E.g. "Suppose function FOO calls functions BAR..." 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar. [Jargon File] (1995-03-07)
bar
1. <programming, convention> /bar/ The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. E.g. "Suppose function FOO calls functions BAR..."
2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-07)