From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T15:37:07+09:00
Subject: Re: A Rubyist's Dream

Bill Kelly wrote:

>From: "David Sletten" <david@slytobias.com>
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>>Ghislain MARY wrote:
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>>>>Do you think it is any coincidence that Onigurama (Ruby's new Regexp
>>>>engine) translates as "ghost car"?
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>>>Isn't it Oniguruma instead? I haven't heard about it yet but that sounds 
>>>better to me ;)
>>>
>>>Ghislain
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>>"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".
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>Since http://ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/36756
>I've thought it was "Demon Wheel"...
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Would that I could swallow up all of my vowelish improprieties here 
throughout the years.

Look, guys.  I have insider information saying that it's "ghost car" and 
that's what I like!

Lots and lots of love,

_why