RE: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

[Tushar Samant <D@i-works.com>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Jeff Pinyan wrote:
>Where (what version of Perl) do you get these warnings in?  I use a comma
>because it's weaker than local(), and because it's "fun".  (Useless use of
>double quotes there, when single quotes would have done, I'm sure.)

I was trying to read Donald Davidson on the subject of quotation in
language (don't ask, I always wanted to go to college) and one way
he explained why many existing theories were dissatisfying amounted
to saying that they treat quotation as "single quotes"--opaque and
without further structure. Which leaves a lot unexplained...

And his initial theory? Something like, a "quotation mark", *which
may be arbitrary*, changes the behaviour of the "parser" until the
end of the quotation.

Well, there was more elaboration later on--but I mean... One of the
biggest names in philosophy, brothers and sisters...

--
Tushar Samant
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