On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:21 PM ethiejiesa via Programming
<[email protected]> wrote:
> > What would it emit instead?
> Words that just happen to contain spaces.
>
> I just realized, however, that my original email example lets
> number words contain trailing spaces. So, I agree that the cell "0
> 5" in the state table needs to be what it is. However, if we're in
> state num and encounter a quote or "other" character, I still don't
> grok why ev (emit vector) is used instead of em (emit). Is there a
> case where we have a number token containing a quote character, or
> likewise for "other" characters?

ev() just lets the machine use meta-states (with other states as "sub-states").

Remember, also that some verbs begin with numeric characters (0: for example).

Thanks,

-- 
Raul
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