Editing Metasyntactic variable (section)

===C===
{{See also|C programming language}}
In the following example the function name <code>foo</code> and the variable name <code>bar</code> are both metasyntactic variables. Lines beginning with <code>//</code> are comments.
<syntaxhighlight lang="cpp">
// The function named foo
int foo(void)
{
   // Declare the variable bar and set the value to 1
   int bar = 1;

   return bar;
}
</syntaxhighlight>