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>Before Nancy's explanation I thought, that it's an short form of "function". Anyway, I personally hate to see all these "foo"s in my colleague's code. I always use a meangful name for variables, objects, etc., even for temp variables.



Nadya,

You mean that they actually use FOO and BAR in real live code!!!

Even *I* wouldn't do a thing like that.

Cheers,

Chris