From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Nov 08 06:28:30 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:28:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kyone-0006pz-Bl for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:28:30 -0800 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.185]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KyonZ-0006pU-0k for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:28:30 -0800 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so2295274fks.2 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:28:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=SyGjcb1g8scw0ravTjCNoJfs9zHa7ibOe7iPCy7+vbk=; b=VvIHFXXuJX2yZmAjmmpChU/WqBd514oxBjlpN2og92A1nLd72FVFEcyF+twKeNAYzz BDJcMGpUIG9i2FHXQ/T9TnZ0kImLdEmFSn7f3Akp3ljanP7Z9pUOakF6D7ZK8mEIPBtx 4cGce/2SscMQS8is/2aB7+9ZPetbYrqdo9VK0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=HxaNE/GZVdHCrz0/kCFv3i0XRmZXJAm6pdhn+hA8s7BrU7v8IZPpQZtdtW5ANQbUY7 +T8C8OSMKHKCq3GumG3PMoqm2l4Ni0owHTdnaTX36q5ekIvDjLd9+IQT94FkEaVRF9zH 8m3rBsQf3DxzB6T3dac/fJFUGhRcZcjDjWHpo= Received: by 10.181.192.10 with SMTP id u10mr1398221bkp.185.1226154503223; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:28:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.181.1.5 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 06:28:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:28:23 +0100 From: "Daniel Brockman" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: la'e di'u (was: experimental cmavo in lojgloss.) In-Reply-To: <737b61f30811071636j27778025n697e4fffe031f433@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_75128_2827416.1226154503242" References: <737b61f30811070541l45110d3dsc5144714e926e32d@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560811070554m1b3a060ds5904bb7451ce7920@mail.gmail.com> <20081107142028.GC2447@nvg.org> <737b61f30811071636j27778025n697e4fffe031f433@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 228e7eb5f52ce538 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 14958 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: daniel@brockman.se Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_75128_2827416.1226154503242 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Chris Capel wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 08:57, Daniel Brockman wrote: > >> Anyway, reassignment of extant cmavo is not likely to happen, for > reasons of forwards-compatibility. > > > > If nobody uses a cmavo and we deprecate it, is it still "extant"? > > "forwards compatibility" being "I want to read this lojban text from > 20 years ago and they're using this cmavo in a very strange way that I > don't know... > Except we're not! -- Daniel Brockman daniel@brockman.se ------=_Part_75128_2827416.1226154503242 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 08:57, Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> wrote:
>> Anyway, reassignment of extant cmavo is not likely to happen, for reasons of forwards-compatibility.
>
> If nobody uses a cmavo and we deprecate it, is it still "extant"?

"forwards compatibility" being "I want to read this lojban text from
20 years ago and they're using this cmavo in a very strange way that I
don't know...

Except we're not!

--
Daniel Brockman
daniel@brockman.se


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