if <assignment>:

[Greg Ewing]

maney at pobox.com wrote:

> Dave Brueck <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> wrote:
> 
>>proof that the language is broken in that area. We don't say, "Is Tuesday 
>>today?" or "Is 5 your age?", either. :)
> 
> Is it Tuesday today?


But these sound *really* odd:

   Is Tuesday it today?

   Tuesday is it.

Some people insist that the verb "to be" should take
the same case before and after, e.g. "I am he" and
not "I am him". But I offer these as evidence that,
in English at least, this verb is NOT symmetrical!

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg