On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:43:36 +0000 (UTC) philip chastney via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> -------------------------------------------- > On Tue, 17/7/18, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Subject: Re: UAX #9: applicability of higher-level protocols to > > bidi plaintext To: [email protected] > > Date: Tuesday, 17 July, 2018, 3:30 AM > > > An interesting ambiguity is "!True" v. "True!". > > "!True" can be read as "Not true". > > true - there are contexts where "!True" can be read as "Not true". The context I had in mind was terse exchanges between those who have recently programmed in C. Thus, 'true' would be read as 'true' rather than as '1', and '!true' as 'not true'. A longer context would usually eliminate the ambiguity. Richard.
