From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-03-22T05:45:40+09:00
Subject: Re: [EG] Time::INFINITY

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:30:12AM +0900, 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.

exempli gratia
 
> I like the idea, but I see a practical difficulty with it.  Most code 
> snipets apprear as replies to previous posts.  I guess that we could 
> alter the title when we respond though.

We can attach the categorization to the body instead of to the header...

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