- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:07:38 -0800
- To: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
- Cc: Gregor Hagedorn <G.Hagedorn@BBA.DE>, www-validator@w3.org
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 04:18 AM, Lloyd Wood wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Gregor Hagedorn wrote: >> What is foo and bar? Can you add a definition of these to the help >> file? > > no, I should think. > But Gregor brings up a good point. Use of "FOO" and "BAR" is bad technical writing and should be avoided. They're just above the idea of injokes -- jargon for (some) programmers which is completely opaque to anyone not in the know. I don't know how or why the Validator uses "FOO" or "BAR", but the terms should be dropped. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://blog.kynn.com/iae Shock & Awe Blog http://blog.kynn.com/shock
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