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<H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</H1>
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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</A></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 15 May 97 10:19:17 -0700</LI>
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In <<A HREF="msg00465.html">199705140835.KAA21091#regoc,srce.hr</A>>, on 05/14/97
at 08:26 PM, silovic#srce,hr (Miroslav Silovic) said:
> [coder#ibm,net]
>> And here comes the really nasty context-driven ambiguities:
>>
>> put the paper under the book on the table.
>>
>> Does this mean to take the paper that is currently under the book and
>> to put it on the table, or does it mean to take the paper and place it
>> under the book which is located on the table?
>>
>> I suspect that I'll have to arrive at a general handler for such which
>> attempts to resolve both conditions and then picks the one which is
>> actually support (ie there is no book on the table so it must be the
>> other parse, or there is no paper under a book so it must be the other
>> parse, or it is unresolvable).
>Actually if you've ever seen Prolog program, you'd know that this is
>trivial to implement in Prolog.
Somewhere I even have a copy of Turbo-Prolog...
..Comment on functional languages and backtracking ellided...
Will research. I don't have a background with functional languages.
>This
>is of course implementation picture, on the language level, it's
>*VERY* easy to use - you simply see it as functions being constructed
>on the spot and passed around. Good Scheme compilers execute this
>only a little slower than optimized C would execute).
<sprong!>
(mental light flickers on)
Ahh. Yes. Hurm. Cute. Hurm...
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<LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00434" HREF="msg00434.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] (fwd) Re: Issues from the digests and Wout's list</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Wed 14 May 1997, 01:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00362" HREF="msg00362.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sat 10 May 1997, 23:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00428" HREF="msg00428.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Tue 13 May 1997, 23:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00465" HREF="msg00465.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Wed 14 May 1997, 22:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00505" HREF="msg00505.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
clawrenc <a href="mailto:clawrenc#cup,hp.com">clawrenc#cup,hp.com</a>, Sat 17 May 1997, 00:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00515" HREF="msg00515.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: Prepositions and parsing</A></strong>,
Miroslav Silovic <a href="mailto:silovic#srce,hr">silovic#srce,hr</a>, Sat 17 May 1997, 10:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00367" HREF="msg00367.html">Re: several messages</A></strong>,
Ling <a href="mailto:K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk">K.L.Lo-94#student,lut.ac.uk</a>, Sun 11 May 1997, 05:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00430" HREF="msg00430.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Re: several messages</A></strong>,
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