From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003): bar /bar/, n. 1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. “Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....” 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.
bar /bar/, n.
1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before baz. “Suppose we have two functions: FOO and BAR. FOO calls BAR....”
2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar.