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Magic Words: left-to-right

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On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:45:08PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> Robin:
> > I'm really not happy with BAhE. It's too hard to get out of
> > using SI, and you can't return to it with SA.
>
> SA could return to it. That's really independent of left-to-right
> processing, it's just a matter of defining what SA can see, and I
> don't see any reason why SA shouldn't see it.

Because BAhE says "The construct behaves just as that word by
itself.", which implies to me that BAhE is gone for future
processing.

> > Furthermore, BAhE and UI are handled differently.
>
> That's inevitable, because one acts on what follows and the other
> on what precedes. {zo} and {bu} present similar differences, for
> example, for the same reason.

That's not what I'm talking about; BAhE gets absorbed, UI does not.

-Robin