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Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

From:charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 18:07
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.