[TUHS] Whence did "XXX" come about?
Steve Nickolas
usotsuki at buric.co
Fri Sep 4 08:13:09 AEST 2020
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, Dan Halbert wrote:
> My guess is that this was invented independently several times. I think I
> used it myself in the 70's (and not on UNIX), as soon as I had a text editor,
> because "XXX" was easy to search for and was not going to overlap with
> variable names, etc.
I use "EOW" when I'm iterating through something, and stop partway
through, for the same reason: I'm not likely to find that exact
combination anywhere else. (It's not random: it stands for "End of WIP")
I use "XXX" too - usually in the form "XXX FIXME".
-uso.
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