From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-02T02:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Using & for arrays of objects

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thoughtstream" <damian@conway.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Using & for arrays of objects


> "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:<20030630235636.GB1672@jupp%gmx.de>...
>
> > 'use' isn't latin, is it?
>
> It sure is. It's the singular masculine vocative perfect passive
participle
> of the deponent verb 'utor' ("to use").
>
> Very loosely translated, "use Lingua::Romana::Perligata" means:
>
>     "Oh Roman language binding, you have been used."
>
> Which is exactly the case.
>
> ;-)
>
> Damian

I don't know whether to be more impressed by that
post or the fact that Damian is actually lurking
here. (Or perhaps it's just a cameo appearance?)

Drop by the Ruby Conference in Austin in November.
I have a book I'd like you to autograph. ;)

Cheers,
Hal

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Hal Fulton
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