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3 CraigBox 1 A variable variable, used to refer to another [Variable]. Commonly used when discussing SourceCode in english when the speaker is refering to a variable and the name is unimportant.
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3 CraigBox 3 The type of a MetaSyntacticVariable is generally held to be irrelavent, partly because there are commonly used variable names when the type is important (''i'', ''j'' and ''k'' for loop counters, for instance).
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3 CraigBox 5 See also: [Foo] and [Bar]