From: David Sletten <david@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T14:35:49+09:00
Subject: Re: A Rubyist's Dream

Ghislain MARY wrote:

>>Do you think it is any coincidence that Onigurama (Ruby's new Regexp
>>engine) translates as "ghost car"?
> 
> 
> Isn't it Oniguruma instead? I haven't heard about it yet but that sounds 
> better to me ;)
> 
> Ghislain
> 
> 
"Oni" means demon/fiend/ogre (Also the player who's "it" in a game of tag)
"Kuruma" means car. This becomes "guruma" in the compound "Oniguruma".

David Sletten