[lojban] Re: brivla se brivla

["Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>]

>if we use the lisp notation:

>(function_name arg1 arg2 ...)

>then "mi klama do" would be

>(klama mi do)

>or

>((se klama) do mi)

>where the function "se" modifies the function "klama" to return a new 
>function that is klama with its first two args swapped.

Yes.

>Now suppose we have a tanru "f2 f1" where f2 is the modifier, what 
>would be the lisp notation be?
>(for example, in "mi sutra klama do", sutra is f2 and klama is f1)

>i thought it is

>((f2 f1) x1 x2)

Exactly. You can add additional parentheses to make it

(((f2) f1) x1 x2)

which is equivalent to

(((f2) se f1) x2 x1)

as in "do sutra se klama mi"

 -- .kreig.daniyl.

"Also, to deny god, you have to fill out a form 613-B/9 in triplicate."
 -clsn

ragnarok@pobox.com
teucer@bnomic.org


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