June 21, 2007
3:01 a.m.
Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
is "a" the keyword or is it "is a"?
To be practical, it would have to be a pseudo-keyword that was only recognised after "is". But it would be nicely perverse to make it a true keyword. :-) BTW, something like this actually happens in ALAN (a language for writing interactive fiction, aka adventure games) where you can't use "a" as part of the player-usable name of an object, because the command parser treats it as an indefinite article. So your courtroom drama can't have an object that the player refers to as "Exhibit A". "Exhibit B" is fine, though. :-) (This was true in Alan 2 at least -- Alan 3 might have improved matters.) -- Greg