I sympathize, but "foo" and "bar" are used when the name is beside the point—i.e., precisely when no thought process should go into naming things. See the entry

I sympathize, but "foo" and "bar" are used when the name is beside the point—i.e., precisely when no thought process should go into naming things. See the entry on "metasyntactic variables" in the Jargon File more more information (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variabl...).