On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Dictionary definition is: "$: denotes the longest verb that
> contains it" -- which is commendably brief, as user models go. But I
> can't see how to apply it to the present case, where $: doesn't appear
> to "denote" -- or rather deliver -- the whole of verb: max, but only
> the part above the colon.

A further note:

A qualified rephrasing of the dictionary definition, which I believe
would be accurate would be:

   $: denotes the longest verb that contains it at the time when the
verb is first used.

Of course, this delegates the issue to the concept of "first used" but
that can be broken down fairly simply:

1. When the verb is presented with a noun argument or arguments, or
2. When the verb is given a name.

-- 
Raul
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