Return-Path: Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0t2mpQ-0000ZWC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 00:07 EET Message-Id: Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 9A5C8C63 ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:07:15 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:22:35 -0700 Reply-To: Gerald Koenig Sender: Lojban list From: Gerald Koenig Subject: Re: questions X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Veijo Vilva Content-Length: 994 Lines: 24 >> 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