On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Dan Bron<[email protected]> wrote:
> Does the Dictionary predict this behavior (not resolving names
> until they're executed), and if so, where?

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dicte.htm

   Parsing proceeds by moving successive elements (or their values
   except in the case of proverbs and names immediately to the left of
   a copula) from the tail end of a queue (initially the original
   sentence prefixed by a marker ยง) to the top of a stack (initially
   four markers), and eventually executing some eligible portion of
   the stack and replacing it by the result of the execution.

Also note that the dictionary identifies two kinds of names:
pronouns and proverbs.  Apparently, the term "proverb"
also includes named adverbs and conjunctions.

-- 
Raul
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