> From: Tracy Harms
>
> I think of inflections as occurring to the right of characters other
> than whitespace. I consider null, newline, and tab to be whitespace,
> along with the space character. I don't see the count of characters as
> significant. Longer primaries such as ( {:: ) are not subordinate.
This is a nice and simple way of thinking of it. In other words the primitives
( p.. ) and ( {:: ) have a double inflection.
> On 1/12/10, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It is better to think of "." and ":" as " ." and " :" respectively,
> and that the interpreter is sometimes liberal (forgives you when you forget
> the leading space in certain circumstances).
I was trying to find an example of the interpreter being "liberal" but was
unable to. Can you enlighten me?
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