Magic Words
Jorge "LlambÃas" wrote:
>--- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
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>>*Ewww*. You want SA to skip BAhE to the *right*? Gross.
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>I don't exactly *want* that, it's just the least bad alternative
>I can find. My preferences, in order, would be:
>
>1- Eliminate SA from the language.
>2- Change the meaning of SA to something simpler.
>3- Use the emphasized/nonce word as the replacement word in
> {SA BAhE <word>}.
>4- Use BAhE as the replacement word.
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>
I useta think SA did have a simpler meaning, something like "Erase
several words back; I'm not saying how many, though, you have to work
that out for yourself." Unspecified sort of like {ra}. Though
something like that sounds more like a UI usage than metasyntax.
>>Oh, oh, that reminds me; we need a cmavo for s///. Or at least, I'd
>>very much like one. It would be of selma'o ZEI, and the semantics
>>are "pretend the last instance of the word on the left was actually
>>the word on the right". Oh, and now we can use zo with it and
>>everyhing. I love this idea, I'm glad I thought of it.
>>
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>I wouldn't put it in selma'o ZEI though. That would only
>allow single word replacements.
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>
It would also make the result be a brivla hanging out in the middle of
nowhere, whereas what you want is something like a UI or other freemod.
It doesn't mean anything much right here, but affects meaning earlier
on... You might be able to do something with SEI, but it's a mess
waiting to happen.
~mark