"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:hbt1sv$165...@digitalmars.com... > Max Samukha wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:21:25 +0200, bambo <b...@m.bo> wrote: >> >>> Walter Bright schrieb: >>>> Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >>>> >>>> mostcertainly >>>> doesNOTmeanalanguageisnecessarilyeasiertoparseSymbolsgiveus >>>> aparsinganchorperiodsinasentencearentstrictlynecessarywecould >>>> putoneperlineorjustfigureoutwheretheybelongbyparsingthecontext >>>> Butthatsfairlyobviouslymuchharderthanusingperiodstofollowwhere >>>> youareSemicolonsarethesamething >>>> >>>> (Fixed that for you!) >>> Walter, what a remarkable proove the semicolon helps us all a lot! >>> You are sooooo BRIGHT! You are so creative and intelligent! >>> >>> I LOVE YOU! >> >> This is one of Walter's proofs that don't prove anything. Spaces >> between words are *not redundant*. > > Armed with a dictionary, there's really only one parse of the above text > that works. Consider also that when text is encrypted using pre-computer > methods, the first thing done is all spaces are removed and it is put in > monocase (because that makes it harder for cryptanalysis). Human > decryptors put them back in. > > Consider the fragment: > > Ifthepointisntplainobviousfromtheabovefewersymbols > > Where else could the spaces possibly go?
There's only one possible way: Ift hep oint is NT, pla I nob VI O' U.S. Fromt he, a bovef. Ew! Ers y m bols! It's obviously a note from a crazy person.
