On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:51 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Christopher Subich wrote: >> Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider >> the sentence: >> >> "The horse raced past the barn fell." >> >> It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that >> occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the entire >> sentence. > >I can't parse that at all. Are you sure it's correct? Aren't "raced" >and "fell" both trying to be verbs on the same subject? English surely >doesn't allow that forbids that sort of thing. (<wink>) I had a heck of a time myself. Try "The horse that was raced..." and see if it doesn't make more sense. Regards, -=Dave -- Change is inevitable, progress is not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list