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And Rosta scripsit: > I don't see what zi'e can do that ku'o and ge'u can't. And since > zi'e was a late addition and is its own selmaho, I am wondering if > there is some crucial parsing issue that I am overlooking that > makes zi'e necessary. In fact zi'e was not a late addition: it was removing the previous meanings of zi'a (OR), zi'o (IFF), and zi'u (WHETHER OR NOT) that was fairly late. I argued successfully that only zi'e deserved to survive. It didn't occur to me or anyone else that removing it in favor of null would even be possible. -- John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra