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 --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan / sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk