On 7/31/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > bring friends, family, well-behaved dogs and interns, etc. > > there is no distributive property of adjectives over nouns except maybe > if the adjective preceedes the whole list. like arithmetic, except the > results of the parser may depend on the conscience of the parser. > > which is good if you are friends, family or an intern. >
With the commas as they are, etc meaning "and other things" and having and "and" where it is, this reads (I think in a standard parser): bring - friends, - family, - well-behaved dogs and interns, - etc. either grouping (well-behaved dogs) and interns or well-behaved (dogs and interns) in a rather ambiguous way. Can we bring bad-behaved interns?. The "and" is redundant in the presence of the "et" in the "et cetera", unambiguously meaning that there is a grouping or class of equivalence being defined. Though I am not a native english speaker though, so I might be wrong. Back to the assembler... -- - curiosity sKilled the cat
