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Posted by rlpowell on Sun 07 of Nov, 2004 02:49 GMT posts: 14214

What do we do about SI, SA and ZOI?

Option 1:

• SI is an allowed ZOI delimiter.
• SI after ZOI eats through delimiters and text seperately, so four SI in a row are required to erase a ZOI.
• Fastest way to erase a ZOI clause is to use SA + something that occured before the ZOI; SA+ZOI doesn't help at all; it just puts you back in the ZOI. Since SI can be a ZOI delimiter, SA+ZOI+SI is just a ZOI clause ready for non-Lojban text.

Option 2:

• SI is an allowed ZOI delimiter.
• SI after ZOI eats the entire thing, ZOI and all.
• SA+ZOI puts you back in the ZOI. Since SI can be a ZOI delimiter, SA+ZOI+SI is just a ZOI clause ready for non-Lojban text.

Option 3:

• SI is NOT an allowed ZOI delimiter.
• SI after ZOI eats through delimiters and text seperately, so four SI in a row are required to erase a ZOI.
• SA+ZOI puts you back in the ZOI. Since SI can NOT be a ZOI delimiter, SA+ZOI+SI is the fastest way to delete the whole thing.
• This would mean that the only case where WORD + SA + same category as WORD + SI doesn't == nothing would be with ZO.

I have a strong preference for option three; it gives the most user friendliness, IMO. What do you all think?

-Robin