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xelxebar
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Hmmm... I vote for writing English in direct AST syntax to avoid these ambiguities.
egwynn
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If only I knew for sure which of the entries on the wikipedia disambiguation page for ‘AST’[1] you were talking about! /s
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AST
fao_
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I actually tend to use curly braces as 'ambiguity braces', when a term is ambiguous. They've met with some amount of success.
insertnickname
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Would you show an example?
fao_
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a, b, c, or d a, b, {c or d} a, b, c or {d} a, {b or c}, d
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(agree (with (I you)))
mbel
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Shouldn't it be: (agree I (with you))?
joshuata
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I would write it (agree I you) since it is similar to a conjunction - the "with" is implied.
mikeash
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Beats me, English grammar isn't my strong suit.
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