On 10/23/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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