Re: reparsing the ambiguous

2001-07-11 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, David L. Nicol wrote: > > Statistics break at the edges. I meant something that > will expand > > $$$name[5]{cheese} > > into [snip] > my $RVAL; > eval { >$RVAL = ${${${name}[5]}{cheese}} > }; # normal p

Re: reparsing the ambiguous

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Brian
> I wonder how long (less than a year?) it will be until people are writing > computer languages that know enough about context to select a parsing that > Makes Sense when faced with an ambiguous construction. Not long. My Linguana talk/paper @ TPC treats (in part) a natural language programming