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[lojban] Re: y: what is it good for?



On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:06:00PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> > * it can be used as a "zoi" delimiter (though I think the ability to
> > use erase words here is bad design; I'd prefer "zoi si zo" to
> > preprocess to "zo")
> 
> Right. None of si, sa, su, y, zei or bu should be allowed as zoi
> delimiters, since delimiters are not scarce so it doesn't make sense
> to block the more useful interpretation. 

That makes sense to me.  If no-one has horrible objections, I think I'll
go with it.  Due to precedence issues, bu, zei, and .y. already fail as
zoi delimiters, so explicitely denying the erasure words as well isn't
much of a stretch (and much less work than allowing all six as
delimiters).

-Robin

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