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Re: What's the name of this library? (was: Re: autotools transition report: v 28.07)
Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
| On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:18:52AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
| > |
| > | "+" is not part of any natural language alphabet.
| >
| > Do you have any reference for that assertion?
|
| No. Natural languages are merely a hobby of mine, not a profession, but
| I've never come across a written language which includes '+'. Do you
| have any counterexamples?
I have examples of languages (in the country where I grew up) where
symbols like + are used in sentences. Thoise languages are part of
Bantou family language.
[...]
| Things that look for words will not find "++". It's not a hypothetical
| proposal, it's something that rears its head and bites us every now
| and again.
Then, they have the wrong definition of word :-)
Didn't you never use a lanague where plain ++ is an *identifier*?
PostScript is one such language, and it was invented in the early mid
'80. It is not like we're inventing here.
Ah, there is a notion of "meta characters" for broken grammars :-)
-- Gaby