[YG Conlang Archives] > [engelang group] > messages [Date Index] [Thread Index] >
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:25 AM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:I would approach the rules differently, by defining the combinatorial properties of words, so the thing currently called "complement" wouldn't arise. I would normally have said a unary operator has one complement and a binary operator has two complements, but one could call them "dependents" instead, to avoid confusion.
Would "formula-modifier" be acceptable to you? Then we can use "complement" in the manner that you want it to be used, to refer to formulas governed by operators. I would prefer *not* to change the rules, but I agree that "complement" as it is used now has a slight smell.