On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:18:59AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > 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. > > AFAICT those two usages are one and the same: when you see "foo" it's > because the code is actually described in a (human) meta-language. My take, too. Cheers -- t
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