We all know foo, bar, and baz. But when I see people actually needing a placeholder name for a function or variable... I’ve often seen other placeholders.
Mine are: coxinha, coisa, test.
“test“ you probably understand.
“coisa” is ‘thing‘ in portuguese.
“coxinha” can be translated as “little thigh”, but it’s actually a fried snack. (the cover image!)
From what I saw, each one has one... so what’s yours?
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hest -- Danish for horse
I use "hello" and if it's a string then "stringy". I always use Pandita Pan as a placeholder user too xD
I use 'dada', because of finger position
Fine choice sir, I tend to prefer ogabooga
Some Japanese use "hoge" "fuga" "piyo" for placeholder names - though I hear they are dying out and learner sometimes misunderstand that these mean something.
I use them plus the foobar style placeholders; whichever to use is up to my feeling.
BEEEEEEES!
I try to make up funny words like zerk, zalg, blerp, blurg, any 4-5 letter which may sound like it does not belong and for some unknown reason I choose a lot of the letters a, b, x, z.
Even when debugging and testing, i use somewhat logical names.
‘function logUser(User $user)’
‘private string $tempLocale = “en”:’
Stuff like that. Sometimes these stay till the next day or after a weekend. and it helps me pick up where i left off without searching what they mean/do.
I almost always use fruits and vegetables! Nearly universal, paints an image in the head, makes whiteboards colorful, etc. When testing things with arrays, you can create illustrative categories like
const red = [apple, tomato].I keep it simple and stick with test.
Bobby Socks
Alright +1 for the oogabooga
I don't use placeholders for programming. variables, functions, classes should all be related to module I am working on. But for user-testing, db seeding, etc, I have habit of using existing information of frictional characters created by old writers.
Characters from edgar allen poe, enid blyton, james hadley chase, A lot of Cartoon characters from hanna-barbera shows, Harry Potter, gods from greek mythology, characters from Indian comics. I have a personal DB of fictional addresses, from all the above mention tv-shows, books and novels which I use to feed DB and test forms.
I use
derpandsdgso often that some of them have even made it to production. 💀Maaaan the minute I saw that cover image my mouth started watering lol, I haven't had coxinha in ages!