From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T05:38:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [EG] Time::INFINITY

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:25:16AM +0900, ahoward wrote:
> 
> > seems that there must be about a million cool code snippets stored in this
> > list - but AFAIK they are not easily searchable.  i'd like to suggest a
> > subject marker of [EG] for posts containing usefull code snippets (eg. ones
> > that run and do something usefull).  if something like this exists please
> > enlighten me.
> 
> Could it be [EX] for "Example"?  I can't imagine what [EG] could mean.
> I'm sure that it comes from 'e.g.' in English, but I don't know where
> 'e.g.' comes from either.

It's Latin for 'exempli gratia', which means "for example".  'EX' makes
sense, but only if English is your native language.  Of course, I have
no idea if "e.g." is regularly used (or used at all) in other languages.

Regards,

Dan

-- 
a = [74, 117, 115, 116, 32, 65, 110, 111, 116, 104, 101, 114, 32, 82]
a.push(117,98, 121, 32, 72, 97, 99, 107, 101, 114)
puts a.pack("C*")