Cleanest C++ Interface to Python

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Tue Feb 4 01:48:42 EST 2003


On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:44:52 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:

>Bengt Richter wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 20:03:22 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> >I don't think I ever twigged to the fact that the order of the
>> >arguments affects the order of the output Google provides.
>> [OT] Is that kind of relation to facts like finding by dowsing?
>> Just wondering where the terminology came from ;-)
>
>I assume it's the last definition for "twig" as seen here: 
>
>http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1?stage=1&word=twig
>
>Websters shows this:
>
>Twig \Twig\, v. t. [Gael. tuig, or Ir. tuigim I understand.]
>     1. To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you
>        twig me? [Colloq.] --Marryat.
>
Well, thanks. What fun language is ;-) I'd never heard it before.

Regards,
Bengt Richter




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