On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 08:07:16AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: [...] > On Tuesday, December 03, 2019 07:16:22 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > With 'find' instead of 'locate'. [...] > It took me a minute (well, a trial) to realize that dir_with_repos is a > metaname (right word?). I prefer a syntax like: I think the canonical name is "metasyntactic variable" [1]. I've seen also just "metavariable", although Wikipedia would say that the latter belongs in the realm of logic [2], not programming. But "metaname" was close enough for me to grok what you wanted to say. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metavariable -- tomás
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