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Magic Words

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On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:00:05PM -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> >>I very much like option 3. I'm curious about one point you
> >>mentioned earlier, and whether it's still a problem, though.
> >>After erasing the final delimiter, are we in a place to add more
> >>quoted text?
> >
> >Yes, absolutely.
>
> Hmmm. When I wrote that yesterday, I thought that was a good
> thing. Now I'm confused with how that interacts with the "four
> {si}s remove a {zoi}" thing.

Strings of SI are excepted. The interactions at that point become
hairy if you don't also disallow SI as a delimiter.

> That is, how do we know that the next si is meant to remove the
> zoiWords, and not be added to them?

We define that you can't do the latter. You can, however, say:

zoi zoi foo zoi si <anything else here> si si si

and put si in that way.

-Robin