I was astonished, because on the Wiki Documentation page the code block seems to do the trick.
you mean on:
http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xowiki-doc/ ?
This is not a wiki page.
what is the trick to instruct XoWIKI to parse @bar@ not as a template variable but keep it the way it is.
The trick is to check always out the documentation in a first step (e.g.
http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download/xowiki-doc/#vars
) and to add then a backslash before the first at-sign.