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Jordan: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 04:08:25PM -0500, Invent Yourself wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, And Rosta wrote: > [...] > > > #Actually, xorxes mentions on the wiki that if you accept x2 of ka > > > #you can just use se ka instead of poi'i for this. Which is a bit > > > #nicer imho: > > > > > > I agree. I let the poi'i proposal stand because currently poi'i is > > > baseline conformant and se ka is not > > It may technically be more baseline compliant, A lot of people care a lot whether something is or isn't technically baseline compliant; I didn't want to just ignore them. > but I think the ka > thing is better because it's something ka really should have anyway > (using ckaji for this is both clumsy and incomplete because a ka > can have N variables) I tend to agree, though it loses us the nice way to do reflexives. > > > #I would actually like to see the byfy maybe consider modifying the > > > #place structure of ka so that x2-xn are places for filling in lambda > > > #variables. Which variables are filled by which place could be > > > #specified by subscripts (ce'uxipa is x2, ce'uxire is x3, etc) or > > > #assumed left to right otherwise > > > > > > I like this idea. Is it on the wiki yet? > > The x2 of ka is I think, but not the xn ka, afaik I had already added a note on "se ka", but I've added a page for your generalized proposal. --And.