On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 16:28 +0500, Boldin Pavel wrote: > I though joke is EXACTLY name of this field.
I remember in a past life in my computational theory class the term "pumping lemma." Just because it sounds like a joke doesn't mean it is one. > It can be called ``type" or ``FOURCC" like in other formats, but in > almost all OpenSource projects it is called ``magic". Except that magic values are neither of these. FOURCC values are standardized. Type values don't imply an "unlikely to appear value." I think the reason almost all FOSS projects call it "magic" is because the term has Unix roots, and for those familiar with unix it has a very specific meaning that is distinctly different from FOURCC and type. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/magic-number.html Jason.
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