Re: TECH: Sound Change program
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 25, 2005, 4:31 |
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:58:49 -0500, taliesin the storyteller
<taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> * Paul Bennett said on 2005-03-25 03:22:22 +0100
>>
>> V=aeiou
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> Please allow the variables to be longer than one letter.
Good plan. "V=a,e,i,o,u,ei,ou"
>> Also, I'd need some kind of escape mechanism to distinguish named
>> variables from text,
> Not to mention CXS using a lot of special characters that could be used
> for a variable marker.
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> Find some symbol not used in cxs and x-sampa at least, like
> one of the following characters (latin1):
> ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ ® ¯
> ° ± ² ³ ´ µ ¶ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
I like § as a gut reaction. I wonder how easy it is to type...?
> Maybe « and » to mark features, or instead of [ and ] for regexes?
I like [] for features and () for regexes, with a descrambling pass before
they're read for real. Maybe the French quotes would be good for the
second-pass feature delimiters.
> If you're going to allow patterns of the form VARNAMEsomethingelse, with
> no space after VARNAME, you might maybe repeat the var-marker...
> ¦VAR¦ maybe?
I think I like single-character variable names, to be honest. We'll see
what happens.
Paul
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