It always makes me smile that lispers use the term "earmuffs" to refer to variables named *foo*.
https://lisp-lang.org/style-guide/#variables
As far as I'm aware this particular name isn't used in other communities. Paired * is rare elsewhere, but lisp programmers are no stranger to paired syntax!
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"if you partially evaluate an interpreter with respect to a particular input, you get a compiler"