Likely this comment should be in chat, but ...
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On 2014/11/20 07:12 , Roger Hui wrote:
This violates universality.
Universality is not necessarily a good principle for language design.
1.2 3.4 $ 5.6
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| 1.2 3.4 $5.6
'abc' $ 3 4 5
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| 'abc' $3 4 5
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Sergey Kamenev <[email protected]>
wrote:
20.11.2014 09:05, Jan-Pieter Jacobs пишет:
To give you a more direct reply:
conjunctions, like & and @ work on either verbs or nouns.
=: and =. are neither, they are a special category called copula.
I hope this clarifies.
It is clear that the assignment is an exception to the rule.
It is unclear why this was done.
This violates universality.
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