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[Major: The dreaded word "only"]
- To: John Cowan <cowan@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Raymond <eric@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>, Eric Tiedemann <est@SNARK.THYRSUS.COM>
- Subject: [Major: The dreaded word "only"]
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!shoulson>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 15:10:06 EST
- In-Reply-To: David Cortesi's message of Fri, 17 Jan 1992 14:01:33 TZONE
- Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <cbmvax!uunet!CTR.COLUMBIA.EDU!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!shoulson>
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 14:01:33 TZONE
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From: David Cortesi <cortesi%INFORMIX.COM@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu>
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[Shoulson...]
> "lat." is not a valid cmene for the same reason as above
[Major...]
> "T" is the name of the truth constant in most implementations of lisp.
> A discussion of a lisp program might well want to refer to "the thing
> named 'T'".
Wouldn't that be: la ty? (or la ga'e ty?) As in
xu la fy cu fancu cupra la ga'e ty
(yes or no: the f function-produces the T)
No. "la ty" is ungrammatical, since "la" cannot precede a letteral. You
could use "li ty" or "li ga'e ty", I imagine. I'm not positive of the
semantics though.
~mark
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Mark E. Shoulson: shoulson@ctr.columbia.edu