In playing around with this I came across the following problem.
if tSentence =
"I think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give
the wrong answers."
(including the quotes),
then word -1 of tSentence =
"I think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give
the wrong answers."
as we all know.
And word -1 of
I "think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give
the wrong answers."
is
"think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give the
wrong answers."
If tSentence =
("I think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give
the wrong answers.")
then word -1 of tSentence =
("I think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give
the wrong answers.")
Hmmm. OK, a "word" includes immediately adjacent punctuation.
But if tSentence =
(I "think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give
the wrong answers.")
then word -1 of tSentence =
)
I've complained before about the treatment of a phrase in quotes as a single
word, but the minimum requirement for a computer grammar is consistency.
I'm looking forward to the proposed new implementation of this token.
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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