"Rotate the screen 90 deg. clockwise"
"Rotate the screen 180 deg. clockwise"
Using Robin's new carna it's pretty simple.
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:10:16 AM UTC+4, Robin Powell wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:28:41PM +0200, v4hn wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:05:46PM +0200, selpa'i wrote:
> > Am 26.08.2012 22:35, schrieb Robin Lee Powell:
> > > x1 turns about vector x2 towards direction x3, turning
> > > angular distance / to face point x4
> >
> > How can an angular distance and a point faced be the same sumti
> > place?
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 01:35:14PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > The basic mechanism here, in programming terms, is polymorphism
> > in the x2 and x4 places.
>
> That's just what polymorphism means...
>
> The idea is that you can still disambiguate any sentence with
> {carna}, if the set of sumtis referring to possible angular
> distances and the set of sumtis referring to possible points in
> space you can face are always disjunct.
>
> Is this concept already used somewhere in lojban?
I believe there are other sumti that work something like that, but
I'm not remembering any examples off the top of my head.
Briefly poking at the gismu list, ragve, danfu, zanru. Others, I'm
sure.
-Robin
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