On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:25:16AM +0900, ahoward wrote:
> rubyists-
> 
> seems that there must be about a million cool code snippets stored in this
> list - but AFAIK they are not easily searchable.  i'd like to suggest a
> subject marker of [EG] for posts containing usefull code snippets (eg. ones
> that run and do something usefull).  if something like this exists please
> enlighten me.
> 
> for now, i am simply limited to search for 'ts or decoux' in the From field.
> 
> -a
> 
> i was thinking of something *like* this, which would make filtering them pretty
> darn easy :
> 
> Subject: [EG] topic
> 
> then in body of message
> 
> ----CUT----
> # desc
> ruby code
> ----CUT----

We can moreover define a namespace, probably following the RAA:

Subject: [EG:/Application/Development] bla

----[CUT: foo.rb]----

puts "FOO"

----[END: foo.rb]----
 
And we have single-handily created the new RAA for code snippets :-)


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