From mark@kli.org Fri Sep 07 07:28:08 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: mark@kli.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_1); 7 Sep 2001 14:28:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 21328 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2001 14:21:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 7 Sep 2001 14:21:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n35.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.1.40) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Sep 2001 14:21:02 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: mark@kli.org Received: from [10.1.10.117] by mu.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 Sep 2001 14:21:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:21:00 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Mark on wiki on lerfu Message-ID: <9nal4c+e64d@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <10d.56835bd.28ca2e12@aol.com> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 768 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 162.33.229.2 From: mark@kli.org --- In lojban@y..., pycyn@a... wrote: > In a message dated 9/7/2001 7:59:35 AM Central Daylight Time, > a.rosta@n... writes: > > [how do we know to parse {gyby} as one sumti rather than two?] The usually-elided terminator {boi}. {.i mi klama gy.by.} means I go to GB. {.i mi klama gy.boi by.} would be I go to G from B. I suppose this is a gotcha with using lerfu-string variables, since nobody remembers the terminator, but I haven't found it to be much of a problem. Then again, I don't usually have all that many assigned at once, and they don't show up in the same sentence much. But if Bob sent his copy of Titus Andronicus to Sally from Chicago by way of the Internet, I might have to say {.i by. benji ty.abuboi sy.boi cy.boi .ibuboi}. Oh well. ~mark