Message-Id: <199510102217.SAA14999@locke.ccil.org>
Date:         Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:22:35 -0700
Reply-To: Gerald Koenig <jlk@NETCOM.COM>
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
From: Gerald Koenig <jlk@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: questions
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR

>> 3) How does one say "any two of the man, the woman and the kid"? That
>>    is, how does one extract n elements from the ce-specified set? The
>>    best I could think of is "re lo cmima be le nanmu kuce le ninmu kuce
>>    le verba". Is there a way of doing it without cmima? Something with
>>    LU'A? I tried "re lu'a ny. ce ny. xire ce vy.", but parser won't
>>    allow that.

xorxes replied:

>The problem there appears to be with {xi}. The parser doesn't like it
>after a BY. {re lu'a ny. ce ny.boi xire ce vy.} seems to work.
>
>Jorge
>

There is a parser problem. I mentioned it to John a while back when I
tried to parse example 13.1 in the mex paper and got an error message.
He is aware of it and may have corrected it in the mex paper for all I
know. The insertion of the "boi" as xorges suggests may be the answer,
I have forgotten John's solution.
There may be other ways to extract n elements from a set, but I think
the one you and xorxes have come to is pretty neat.

djer