Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Denis Moskowitz wrote:

> Much of what has been discussed in this thread is reminiscent of what
> I'm doing with Rikchik ("http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dmm/rikchik/intro.html").
> Rikchik words include a collector that says how many previous words
> are popped off the stack, and each word includes a relation that specifies
> how it relates to the word that collects it.
So a final verb would collect its adverb the same way it does
its noun arguments, which is possible because each noun and
adverb marks its own relation to its verb-collector, it seems.
I did not see a statement that collectors must always follow
their arguments, possibly because it is too obvious (?).
Altogether, a very cool scheme for a workable RPN-like language.