From LOJBAN%CUVMB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU Sat Mar 6 22:52:46 2010 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Thu, 29 Jul 1993 14:53:01 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9031; Thu, 29 Jul 93 14:51:48 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 6379; Thu, 29 Jul 1993 14:51:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 11:53:25 -0700 Reply-To: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Sender: Lojban list From: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Subject: Re: logban ' X-To: lojban@cuvmb.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jul 93 18:20:12 BST." <9307291723.AA04703@julia.math.ucla.edu> Status: RO X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Ukn Jul 29 14:53:03 1993 X-From-Space-Address: jimc@MATH.UCLA.EDU Message-ID: > Frank says: > > Using ' as an alphabetic character is incredibly stupid. My command > > line interpreter uses ' as meaning quoted material follows. I have > > commands which do lookup for lojban words and I use "h" to replace ' > > when I use lojban words as arguments to commands. ' is about the > > worst possible character to use. I wind up seeing "h" and ' as synonyms > > which is annoying. This is one of the most irritating of the lojban > > design flaws. The lojban designers deserve a lot more heat for this > > than they got. This is one bug that should be fixed. > > -- > > Frank Schulz ( fschulz@pyramid.com ) I agree with Frank Schultz and And Rosta that the apostrophe is very hard for existing text handlers to handle. I would vote "yes" for making "h" an allograph for "'" (apostrophe), and even for making it the preferred form. In fact, I think I'll edit my cmavo/rafsi lists with this change, because my lookup commands will then work a lot better. -- jimc