On 10/23/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
ar What this proposal seems to ignore is the normal use of square brackets in texts. In a quotation like, "He [Bob] was found on the beach" the square brackets are used to add in the name to clarify the pronoun, even though it is not part of the actual quotation. The actual name would have occurred earlier in a part of the source text that is not useful to the quote. The proposal, when parsed, seems as though it would remove the brackets.
Yes, this isn't natural language, this is a pattern matching construct. But let's not get bogged down on syntax until we determine whether such a thing is even feasible.
Steve