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bug #65976: [docs] migrate away from "anything" terminology

Submitter:	G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:	Thu 11 Jul 2024 06:04:13 AM UTC


Category:	General	Severity:	2 - Minor
Item Group:	Documentation	Status:	None
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Thu 11 Jul 2024 06:04:13 AM UTC, original submission:

We see this jargon in request and escape sequence syntax synopses. It is a legacy of CSTR #54.

This term is too crude and too large a bucket. Replace it with metasyntactic variable names of more specific meaning.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>

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