[fonc] Describing Semantics

2010-11-21 Thread Casey Ransberger
So I was in a heated debate with a good friend about Ometa. He pointed out, inadvertently, that matters of syntax and grammar are only the easy part of the problem. Ometa, I think, is the most elegant language we've seen for binding syntactic/grammatical constructs to semantics implemented in

Re: [fonc] Describing Semantics

2010-11-21 Thread Ian Piumarta
On Nov 22, 2010, at 08:40 , Casey Ransberger wrote: matters of syntax and grammar are only the easy part of the problem. How many hoops do we want to jump through in order to express our semantics? I imagine I'm not the only person thinking about this. I will be talking about exactly this

Re: [fonc] Describing Semantics

2010-11-21 Thread Julian Leviston
Man... I *wish* I could meet you, let alone meet you in Kyoto! J On 22/11/2010, at 12:36 PM, Ian Piumarta wrote: On Nov 22, 2010, at 08:40 , Casey Ransberger wrote: matters of syntax and grammar are only the easy part of the problem. How many hoops do we want to jump through in order to