Re: What is your favourite meta-syntactic variable name?

[chacham]

I tend to use A and B. Why use something longer?

As it so happens, i added the following comment to a VIEW just this morning:

-- This causes a problem as ROLLUP adds a record even if it already ex
+ists in the data. For example:
--  WITH A AS (SELECT NULL A FROM Dual), B AS (SELECT A FROM A GROUP B
+Y ROLLUP(A)) SELECT Rownum, A FROM B

[tobyink]

Why use something longer? Because $a and $b are special Perl globals, and B is a core Perl package.

[chacham]

Good point. In that case, i'd probably use my other favorites, moo and cow. :)