From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 07 16:11:26 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IpuzV-0004Eg-Ph for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:11:26 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IpuzV-0004EZ-6R for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:11:25 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:11:25 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: If-then-else? Message-ID: <20071108001125.GC25510@digitalkingdom.org> References: <97f5058c0711071605k268bce95md1e86ee74a5b5069@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <97f5058c0711071605k268bce95md1e86ee74a5b5069@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-archive-position: 5799 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:05:21AM +0800, Penguino wrote: > What is the Lojban equivalent to if-then-else statements? Generally one of ri'a/rinka, mu'i/mukti, ki'u/krinu, ja'e/jalge, or ni'i/nibli There's some lack of clarity about what nai means with these particles, but I think that "da'i do klama le zarci se mu'i lo nu mi ji'a klama kei se mu'i nai lo nu mi klama le ckule" would be easily understood. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/