From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2002-01-18T23:47:29+09:00
Subject: RE: foozboozer

> From: Paul Brannan [mailto:paul@atdesk.com]
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:16:51PM +0900, Tobias Reif wrote:
> > Who invented the word "foozboozer"? What does it mean?
> >
> > It resurfaced in my head today, and I like it, so I sent Google for it,
> > and all matches are - guess what -- Ruby related :|
> > So it seems to be a word of the Ruby world.
>
> I've never seen the word before.  Where have you seen this word in the
> ruby world?

It appears in the Ruby User's Guide, here:

http://www.e.kth.se/unix-systemet/admin/ruby/uguide/uguide05.html


It appears to be a derivative of "foo" or "foobar", invented for the purpose of
demonstrating regular expressions.

The guide was translated from the original version (in Japanese by matz)  by GOTO Kentaro
& Julian Fondren.


James