BPFK Section: Erasures
> > I wouldn't use this chatty style in the definition. If you have no
> > idea what a selma'o is, look it up under "selma'o", but this
> > advice need not be given in the definition of sa.
>
> I've had several complaints about SA's use of selma'o being too
> complicated because newbies don't know what that is.
I think the complaint is that it's a very unnatural and counterintuitive rule.
It's not just newbies who shouldn't have to know what selma'o are; eventually,
no user of the language should have to know what selma'o are. They're a tool
for talking about the language, not part of the language.
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Rob Speer