From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T02:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: infinite Time

On Friday 21 March 2003 09:22 am, ahoward wrote:
> Time::NI has the property that
>
>   Time::NI < all other times except Time::NI
>
> it can be thought of as being 'the beginning of time'
>
> and
>
> Time::I has the property that
>
>   Time::I > all other times except Time::I
>
> it can be thought of as 'the end of time' or 'forever'


  if Time::now == Time::INFINITY
    raise ApocalypticException, 
      "Gee whiz. You coded in Ruby until the end, didn't you?"
  end