Received: from access2.digex.net by nfs1.digex.net with SMTP id AA24875 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 13 Dec 1994 10:42:30 -0500 Received: by access2.digex.net id AA26873 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for lojbab); Tue, 13 Dec 1994 10:42:07 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Message-Id: <199412131542.AA26873@access2.digex.net> Subject: Re: binding selbri variables To: ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 10:41:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199412130143.AA23591@nfs1.digex.net> from "ucleaar" at Dec 13, 94 00:55:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 627 Sender: lojbab Status: RO X-From-Space-Date: Tue Dec 13 10:42:34 1994 X-From-Space-Address: lojbab la .and. cusku di'e > Is there an analogue of "da poi broda zohu" in which one can assign > a value to a selbri variable, using it thereafter as a selbri? Yes, but you must use a prenex. The precise analogue of 1) da poi broda zo'u da brode is 2) su'o bu'a cei broda zo'u zo'e bu'a The parser thinks that "su'o bu'a" is a sumti (a so-called "indefinite description"), but in the prenex only, it is treated as creating a quantified 2nd-order variable. "cei" is the pro-bridi assignment, so Example 2 means: 3) zo'e broda -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban.