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What is spam, ham and egg in python and foo and bar in other programming language (solved)
I also searched in google but could'nt understand a single word. They were stating something like metasyntetic variable and placeholder as I barely understand this type of english😅. Can anyone please please explain in simple words?
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They're(generally) Nothing but a placeholder or metasyntetic variables (Sorry for using that english again)
Understand it as just variables in any code used for giving examples or using it in a place where you don't have names for variables.
Spam,ham,egg are also used for same purposes not only in python but also in other programming languages.
A simple example can be:
spam=5
print(spam)
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https://code.sololearn.com/W6M9RVIae5Le
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Sometimes used as variable names.
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Martin Taylor yes I've mostly heard a different variant of 'fouled'.
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You have to read monty python book for that they are just Foo and bar just name change
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