From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-09-03T01:45:23+09:00
Subject: Re: invisible Infinity

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:10:21 +0900,
> Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote in [ruby-talk:111227]:
>> the reason i say this is that the notion of infinity is useful for many
>> things, like Time and Date, not just Numeric.
>
> Isn't it Eternity rather than Infinity? :)


i like that!

   class << Time

     Eternity = ::Infinity
     NegativeEternity = ::NegativeInfinity

   end

i got the 'infinity' nomenclature from bi-temporal database terminology and
postgres.

-a
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