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From: clawrenc@cup.hp.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 27 May 97 14:59:22 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
In <Marcel-1.09-0526214314-d07Ky&5@Gryphon.iaehv.nl>, on 05/26/97
at 03:02 PM, Marian Griffith <gryphon@iaehv.nl> said:
>On Tue 20 May, clawrenc@cup.hp.com wrote:
>> Not quite. There are simple sides to the problem here:
>> 1) Statements which are not ambiguous
>> 2) Statements which are grammatically ambiguous
>> 3) Statements which are ambiguous in the current MUD context
>> #3 is of course a subset of #2.
>Not quite. Imagine a room with a ball and two boxes.
>The statement 'Put the ball in the box' is syntactically unambiguous,
>but it is ambiguous in the current context (it is semantically
>ambiguous ?)
Touche! Excellant. Thanks. Hurm. Unghh. Hurm.
<wanders off dazedly>
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