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Subject: RE: [xri] A question on syntax shortcuts


Hi Marty, 

Just a short comment on the search. 

> $ dictionary, if we define "$cond", then the way to express 
> 'less than'
> would look like '$cond*lt'. The $cond says that the lt is a condition,
> so you could drop the plus signs in front of lt.
> 
> The notion of conditions raises another question: do non-ascii
> characters have a different notion of ordering? Or do we just order
> their ascii representations? Or what?

Yes, it does. For instance, for Japanese, you just cannot reduce the 
characters to ascii space. Also, we have a definite ORDER 
in the characters. 

Regards, 

Nat 

 


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