[antlr-interest] [v3] Lack of documentation

[Randall R Schulz]

On Monday 02 July 2007 17:34, Richard Clark wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Gerald B. Rosenberg <gbr at newtechlaw.com> wrote:
> > I for one very much look forward to Terence
> > continuing (that is, beginning with the unholy "book") to work his
> > pernicious deeds and insidious machinations to swiftly achieve
> > world domination
>
> First he has to take over AT&T. They have the death star (logo) after
> all.
>
> I welcome our new grammatically-correct overlords.

Well, since you welcome it, I'll correct you.

Adverbs modify both adjectives and verbs. Hence, hyphenating an adverb 
with an adjective is grammatically incorrect.

Hyphens are only used when one combines words to form a novel, compound 
adjectival phrase that modifies its noun as a single unit. For 
example, "my super-nifty program produced a grammar-corrected 
paraphrase of your sentence" (The correction being: "I welcome our new 
grammatically correct overlords.") Hyphens are used to distinguish 
separate and independent modification by multiple adjectives from a 
single, combined adjectival modifier. Thus "my super, nifty program" is 
a noun phrase with two independent modifiers of the noun "program." 
Said "program" is both "super" a "nifty." In contrast, "super-nifty 
program" is a program whose niftiness exceeds normalcy and must be 
explicitly characterized as superior to ordinary niftiness.

It is perhaps more obvious in the case of "grammar-corrected." Without 
the hyphen, the phrase, "grammar corrected paraphrase" is not even very 
meaningful. While "corrected paraphrase" is reasonably sensible and we 
can think of many sentences which might contain it, "grammar 
paraphrase" is a little more dubious.

And so on.


>  ...R


RRS