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Re: Ruby jargon and slang

MenTaLguY

2/6/2006 5:01:00 PM

Quoting Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>:

> I'm assembling a list of Ruby community "usages" and I want to
> make sure I haven't missed anything important.
>
> I have such things as: duck typing, threequal, spaceship
> operator, singleton method, singleton class, splat or unary
> unarray, multiple or parallel assignment, and (ehh) eigenclass.

You've neglected chunky bacon.

-mental
7 Answers

Daniel Nugent

2/6/2006 9:52:00 PM

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Chunky Bacon isn't jargon, it's a battle cry.

On 2/6/06, mental@rydia.net <mental@rydia.net> wrote:
> Quoting Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>:
>
> > I'm assembling a list of Ruby community "usages" and I want to
> > make sure I haven't missed anything important.
> >
> > I have such things as: duck typing, threequal, spaceship
> > operator, singleton method, singleton class, splat or unary
> > unarray, multiple or parallel assignment, and (ehh) eigenclass.
>
> You've neglected chunky bacon.
>
> -mental
>
>


--
-Dan Nugent

Dirk Meijer

2/6/2006 9:55:00 PM

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2006/2/6, Daniel Nugent <nugend@gmail.com>:
>
> Chunky Bacon isn't jargon, it's a battle cry.


should be in there anyway ;-)

james_b

2/6/2006 10:06:00 PM

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Dirk Meijer wrote:
> 2006/2/6, Daniel Nugent <nugend@gmail.com>:
>
>>Chunky Bacon isn't jargon, it's a battle cry.
>
>
>
> should be in there anyway ;-)
>

What is it?

I mean, besides a shibboleth.



--
James Britt

Hal E. Fulton

2/7/2006 4:31:00 AM

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James Britt wrote:
> Dirk Meijer wrote:
>
>> 2006/2/6, Daniel Nugent <nugend@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Chunky Bacon isn't jargon, it's a battle cry.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> should be in there anyway ;-)
>>
>
> What is it?
>
> I mean, besides a shibboleth.
>

Nothing more, I'd guess.

"Shibboleth" is also a shibboleth, I guess. Rather
self-referential.


Hal

james_b

2/7/2006 4:45:00 AM

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Hal Fulton wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
>>
>> What is it?
>>
>> I mean, besides a shibboleth.
>>
>
> Nothing more, I'd guess.
>
> "Shibboleth" is also a shibboleth, I guess. Rather
> self-referential.

Good catch!


--
James Britt

"Blanket statements are over-rated"

Martin DeMello

2/7/2006 9:58:00 AM

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Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>
> "Shibboleth" is also a shibboleth, I guess. Rather
> self-referential.

More etymology than self-reference - "a shibboleth" is simply a word
that fulfils the same role "shibboleth" did in its original context.

martin

Hal E. Fulton

2/8/2006 1:14:00 AM

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Logan Capaldo wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Martin DeMello wrote:
>
>> Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Shibboleth" is also a shibboleth, I guess. Rather
>>> self-referential.
>>
>>
>> More etymology than self-reference - "a shibboleth" is simply a word
>> that fulfils the same role "shibboleth" did in its original context.
>>
>> martin
>>
>
> Everytime I see "shibboleth" all I can think of is HP Lovecraft.

Haha! No doubt HPL was influenced by real languages and words.

> ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

If I may cut and paste... I saw a T-shirt recently like this:

WHICH PART OF
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?


And a similar one with Schroedinger's Equations...


Hal