What the foo?

[Kyon]

Hey, what's up with the naming of classes/namespaces/functions/data members/template types/structures/unions foo or bar? I've seen plenty of them so far and I just can't stop to think about what it means.

(Pasted this in lounge since it's not really the C++ code, more the writing style or whatever you want to refer to it.)

[Bazzy]

They are just common example words, like "hello world"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar

[Kyon]

Hey, thanks. I learned some .. interesting words. Don't be kludging that cruft, that spaghetti code will make the (hello) world asplode!

[jsmith]

foo and bar are the two syllables in fubar.

[Kyon]

Read about that a minute ago. :P