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Re: New Word Generator

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 14:07
On 2007-09-29 Petr Mejzlík wrote:
> > I'd like to know how the nested parentheses thing works... > It works very simply, like parenthses in maths. What's inside a pair > of parentheses is treated as a single unit - as if it was a single > letter. You can further combine these units and make larger units > containing them. A block bordered by [ and ] will always behave like > one letter, no matter that it can be rendered as ten letters or even > more. Round brackets do the same except that what's inside them > either appears in the word or not.
I have no problem with how it works inputwise. I rather wonder how the program parses it and translates it into conditionals and commands. /BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*, c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)

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