At 2:49 AM +0900 7/2/03, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Thoughtstream" <damian / conway.org>
>Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
>To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:49 AM
>Subject: Re: Using & for arrays of objects
>
>
>>  "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp / gmx.de> wrote in message
>news:<20030630235636.GB1672@jupp%gmx.de>...
>>
>>  > 'use' isn't latin, is it?
>>
>>  It sure is. It's the singular masculine vocative perfect passive
>participle
>>  of the deponent verb 'utor' ("to use").
>>
>>  Very loosely translated, "use Lingua::Romana::Perligata" means:
>>
>>      "Oh Roman language binding, you have been used."
>>
>>  Which is exactly the case.
>>
>>  ;-)
>>
>>  Damian
>
>I don't know whether to be more impressed by that
>post or the fact that Damian is actually lurking
>here. (Or perhaps it's just a cameo appearance?)

Nah -- what do you think he wrote the Perl module 
Quantum::Superpositions for? It lets him read all his mail in 
parallel. (In constant time, of course)

Answering occasionally takes a little longer, though... :)
-- 
                                         Dan

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