On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:21:33PM -0700, tjerk wrote: > Op maandag 20 mei 2013 23:40:48 UTC+2 schreef v4hn het volgende: > > There is no "normal place of a function", just mathematical convention. > > If you prefer reverse polish notation, they belong in the end. > > In the end is not handy compared to at the begin. Not in lojban, right. I just wanted to point out that mathematics doesn't care. > > Talking about programming: > > object methods usually follow their object "object.method()". W.r.t. this > > usage lojban is quite natural. .u'i > > Lojban resembles functional programming more than object oriented > programming. The predicate is central, and that is a function. It resembles neither. It's a language used for communication, not for computation and comparisons to programming languages are all invalid anyway in my opinion. Natural discourses usually have topics/focused objects and those normally go in front in lojban. If you're a lisp programmer and prefer prefix notation to everything else, you can do that by appending {fa} to all of your bridi. Would be an interesting style of lojban to read. mi'e la .van. mu'o
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