Oh, yeah.  Duh.  Thanks.

Henry Rich 

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raul Miller
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:48 PM
> To: General forum
> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] is this syntax error a fixable bug?
> 
> On 5/21/07, Henry Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > v a c v is allowed and equivalent to:
> > > > v a (c v)  NB. best I can tell
> > >
> > > That depends on c and on a.
> >
> > Isn't the statement always true?
> >
> > v a c v   equals
> > (v a) c v   equals
> > (v a) (c v)
> 
> The statement is not always allowed -- sometimes you would
> get a syntax error.  For example, consider the case where (v a)
> results in a conjunction (or when v a is a noun, but body of some
> explicit definition for c is syntactically when its u is a noun).
> 
> -- 
> Raul
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