You make good sense, but no one will read the Old Syntax pages unless
told to. The obsolete articles need to have a pointer to the Old Syntax
page.
Henry Rich
On 9/21/2021 5:09 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
We can learn a lot from history, though sometimes finding the relevant
bits can be discouraging.
Here, probably what we need is a NuVoc treatment of
https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm
Currently, it seems to me, we have stuff like
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/Parsing and
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/GerundsAndAtomicRepresentation
and, of course, https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/semico but
we do not have anything analogous to the parsing and execution page of
the dictionary.
Structurally, that part of the system probably has at least three
layers. There's the lexical layer (word formation) represented by ;:
but we sort of have another layer now used in the context of explicit
definitions, which handles the nested {{ }} stuff. And, on top of
that, there's the grammatical layer which deals with sentence
formation (described concisely in the dicte.htm page). And it's the
history of sentence formation which we are grappling with here.
Once upon a time, we had something like a fork rule that went: edge
cavn cavn cavn and this handled conjunctions in a variety of ways that
are no longer supported (I think because of their lack of utility and
the esoteric pressure they created). And, for this issue, perhaps we
could use an "Obsolete Syntax" page which documents examples of each
of those cases, and viable alternatives which are still supported.
Am I making sense here? Or am I talking crazy?
Thanks,
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