Citations:placeholder

Earliest uses on Usenet via Google Groups: &mdash; Hippietrail 01:58, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * place holder: fa.works - Jan 12 1982, 5:17 pm by ucbvax
 * The paging unit serves two purposes: to provide hardware support for memory allocation at 2K (page) granularity, and as a place holder for the 68010, the promised VM 68000.
 * place holders: net.emacs - Jan 18 1983, 10:59 pm by c
 * These marks may be used as place holders, or they may be used to delimit regions for other commands.
 * placeholder: net.women - Apr 30 1983, 6:29 pm by watmath
 * Again, trying to make "he" a *homonym* causes it to have more characteristics other than a lexical placeholder.
 * placeholders (in program source code comment): net.sources.mac - Sep 2 1985, 10:05 am by Mark Sherman
 * placeholders for some stuff
 * placeholders (ungrammatical): net.micro.pc - Nov 17 1985, 3:34 pm by Bernie Roehl
 * You can always get rid of these placeholders variables after you've loaded other stuff above them.
 * placeholders: net.micro - Mar 16 1986, 8:36 pm by Mark Horton
 * Operations that require insert/delete line/char don't work, so you get slowopen/noredraw; this means @'s as placeholders for deleted lines, and no redraw of the tail of a line when you're inserting until after you hit ESC.
 * placeholder's (inconsistent spelling): alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 - Oct 15 1993, 8:48 pm by David Sharp
 * To bad there isn't a way to do the same thing dblspace.sys does, ie. put a place holder into a UMB, load the prog into conventional RAM and then swap it into the placeholder's spot.
 * placeholder's: rec.sport.football.college - Nov 24 1995, 3:16 am by Joe Bonaker
 * I can't quote you chapter and verse, but there is a special placekicking exemption whereby play continues even though the placeholder's knee and the ball are down on the ground.
 * place holder's: rec.gambling.poker - May 3 1999, 1:50 am by JKearns
 * The only alternative I would have considered would be weighting each possible outcome by the ratio of (Ross' chips/current place holder's chips) at the time.