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Parsing expressions defined by end users
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29/04/2016 01:09:33
 
 
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29/04/2016 00:46:30
Lutz Scheffler (Online)
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01635536
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>>>pluralization of nouns etc. Try this with german. We belive they do it as crule is the germon in the media is those days. ;)
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>>You should try harder, or softer, whichever is your preference. But I think you miss the point - every language is regular, it's just that people don't bother to write down all the rules. Look at this example. All rules I could remember are there, and even though they are expressed in serbian alphabet, I guess you'll fin them simple enough, and it's all quite regular. Every line is one rule.
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>>OK, this is kind of incomplete as I couldn't find the algorithm to discern which of these rules applies when, but I'm sure that once someone points me to it, the text of it will prove to be short, succinct and completely logical.
>
>German rule is simple: Exception.

English has exceptions to the exceptions (and probably exceptions to those, too :))

I think the spelling rule of "I before E except after C" is weird, ancient science.
Regards. Al

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