From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-09-26T00:04:34+09:00 Subject: Re: [RIP] Guy Decoux. On Sep 25, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Dave Thomas wrote: > A suggestion. Ruby Central was, I believe, thinking of a grant > program at some point in the future. Could his name somehow be > associated with these grants? ts gave a lot to the community. It > would seem fit to use his name when the community itself gives > something to others. that's a fantastic idea dave. matz, i don't think it's ever been done before, but have you ever considered honoring ruby's people into the language itself? Ruby.decoux. Ruby.matz. Ruby.nobu. or maybe just 'require "people"' - People.decoux, etc. what would these methods do? maybe return something about them, or maybe something different. i've never been able to explain why i felt ruby was a different community but the fact that i would even suggest this in public must explain it somehow. one thing i discovered about guy long ago when he was helping me offline: he hated revision control. the reason? he had 'mémoire d'éléphant' - a photographic memory. apparently he *liked* to forget things when possible. maybe http://decoux.ruby-lang.org/ would be a good pastie name for ruby - given this propensity to never forget? i'll miss guy. a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama