> Never name your variables foo and bar if you plan to share your code with Nordic countries, because it can be confused with slang for excrement. Eeh... Where

> Never name your variables foo and bar if you plan to share your code with Nordic countries, because it can be confused with slang for excrement. Eeh... Where did you get this from? Neither "foo" nor "bar" sound like slang for excrement in any Nordic language I know. And I'm native in one, near-native proficient in another, and the two largest remaining are very similar to the first. Are you talking about Icelandic, Saami, or Faroese?