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Are there any placeholder numbers in a programming context?

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The terms foobar, foo, bar, baz and qux are sometimes used as placeholder names (also referred to as metasyntactic variables) in computer

The terms foobar, foo, bar, baz and qux are sometimes used as placeholder names (also referred to as metasyntactic variables) in computer programming or computer-related documentation.

...As stated here.

Are there any placeholders for numbers?

Update:

To be more clear, here are some examples where it would be useful to have placeholder numbers:

  • Credit card numbers
  • Licence plates
  • Phone numbers
  • Bar codes (the actual numbers)
  • Freestyle (any length and any numb开发者_StackOverflow社区ers)


This Wikipedia article lists many magic numbers, in particular the famous DEADBEEF. However, it's often a bad practice to use magic numbers since they don't have a common meaning, so they aren't used as often as 'foo' or 'bar' (except, maybe, hex addressed like DEADBEEF). I tend to use all zeros or 1234567890 for things like credit card numbers / phone numbers in my tests. Occasionally I use 42 just for fun but only even then I make sure it's clear that it's a joke.


I don't know if there are any standard ones, but..

You could do 1337..

Or 42 (the meaning of life)

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