From cowan@ccil.org Sun Jun 25 17:09:11 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4313 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2000 00:09:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 26 Jun 2000 00:09:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta2 with SMTP; 26 Jun 2000 00:09:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA15116; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 20:42:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 20:42:10 -0400 (EDT) To: Jorge Llambias Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] RECORD: containers In-Reply-To: <20000625231457.65157.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > In Lojban, when there are no contents the > object ceases the actual bottling until it contains something > again. It continues to be a potential bottler, of course, but > not an actual one. Just like a potential goer is not an actual > goer unless it is going somewhere. I think this is absolutely correct. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know