On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote:
> 2. The counterexample "abc" "def" *does* demonstrate that expressions
> can at times follow each other immediately. It is a nice point even
> if not all that consequential.
>
> Somewhat analogously:
> * ord is an expression
> * ("a") is an expression
> * ord("a") is an expression
I'm tired of this also, so I'll make this response short. By analogy to English:
* "far" is an English adverb.
* "lands" is an English noun.
* "far lands" is an English noun phrase.
* Therefore, a noun phrase in English can consist of an adverb
immediately followed by a noun that is modified by the adverb
The fallacy here is that the "far" in "far lands" is used as an
adjective, not an adverb. I think that the same fallacy applies to the
Python expressions above. If you disagree, that's fine; I'll let it
go.
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