The Syntax and The Shredding Podcast: Episode 5: A CF/AI Metaphysical Drama
ColdFusion and Artificial Intelligence integration while listening to Vintersorg's A Metaphysical Drama.
https://syntax.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/#Vintersorg
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In lispy languages, you have prefix notation. Mostly this doesn't bother me, except for inequalities:
(< a b)
My little pea-brain thinks visually and wants the pointy end pointing to the smaller number -- or, equivalently, the alligator eating the larger number.
But prefix notation makes it very slick to check for a monotonic sequence with just a single < or >:
(< a b c d)
that same boolean expression would, with infix notation, be something like
(a < b) && (b < c) && (c < d)
or maybe a < b < c < d.
Just a random little thing that I do like about Racket, and lisp-y languages in general.
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Seriously, I'm no native speaker of English, but I get the feeling the #syntax tree for this monster is more like a FOREST!
#Development #Previews
Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5 · Stack traces for fatal errors, pipe operator, and much more https://ilo.im/165ec7
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Amit Merchant · Everything that is coming in PHP 8.5As every year, we will have the new version of PHP this year too, which is PHP 8.5. It’s the minor version in the PHP 8 line, and the version will be released later this year. Let’s discuss everything that has been added in PHP 8.5 so far.
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3/ Na, gut, das ist dann doch eher eine Fünf-Minus. =:-)
1/ OK. Da wir jetzt Uni-LLMs haben, spiele ich auch ein bisschen rum. Ich muss sagen, dass das beeindruckend ist. Das Ding kann Syntaxbäume für komplexe Sätze machen, die nicht schlecht sind.
Mit Korrelaten, Satzklammern und Extraposition scheint es noch Schwierigkeiten zu geben. Das "sich" hat es auch elegant weggelassen.
Mit der Auskopplung des #Emacs Org-mode in die #Syntax der vereinfachten Auszeichnungssprache #Orgdown, soll ein besserer Standard als Markdown gesetzt werden. Was Orgdown ist und ob das mit dem neuen Standard etwas werden kann, lest ihr in diesem Artikel.
Ihr alle kennt Markdown und nutzt es wahrscheinlich auch. Markdown ist eine vereinfachte Auszeichnungssprache, die von John Gruber entworfen und im Dezember 2004 mit Version 1.0.1 spezifiziert wurde.
GNU/Linux.chOrgdownMit der Auskopplung des Emacs Org-mode in die Syntax der vereinfachten Auszeichnungssprache Orgdown, soll ein besserer Standard als Markdown gesetzt werden. Was Orgdown ist und ob das mit dem neuen Standard etwas werden kann, lest ihr in diesem Artikel.
A mix of neat and not-so-neat stuff 
:
“10 Features Of D That I Love”, Bradley Chatha (https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/features-of-d-that-i-love/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445877
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/msjy28/10_features_d_i_love
bradley.chatha.dev10 features of D that I love
At this years #LFG conference, I will talk about #TAG and what it shows us for the old phrasal vs. lexical discussion:
https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009130
I think valence information has to be encoded lexically and lexical rules or empty heads or transformations should be used to derive resultative constructions or caused motion constructions. They can not be related to other constructions in inheritance networks.
Comments welcome!
Benung. The Ayeri Language Resource · Topicalizing and inferential la in Toki Pona: Thoughts on constituent structureFor a while now I’ve been trying to apply my knowledge of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG; Kaplan & Bresnan 1982; most recently Dalrymple 2023; for a quick overview, see e.g. Müller 2023: 223–246; Belyaev 2023a) to Toki Pona (Lang 2014; 2021) in order to analyze its constituent structure. LFG’s constraint-based approach seems like an overall useful way to describe syntactic structures, even in a totally isolating language like Toki Pona. Especially the fact that Toki Pona all but lacks morphology makes this a nice brain-teaser. You can find the working draft of what’s by now grown into a whole treatise on Codeberg. And while I’ve come pretty far since I started this project during the 2024/25 Christmas break, the construction usually referred to as a “la phrase” keeps bothering me in the back of my mind. So let me explain in order to sort out my own thoughts.
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Hmmm.... maybe @ for "pc-relative address operator"....
previous instruction: -1@
current instruction: 0@
next instruction: 1@
and so on...
Or any number of '<'s or '>'s to represent the address the instruction that many before or after...
li x3, 5
mul x5, x3, 10
stw x5, (x7)
subi x3, x3, 1
bnez x3, <<<
(I probably could have already implemented local labels in the time I've been considering this)
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ling.auf.netGenerative approaches to Germanic languages - lingbuzz/008757This paper is about the analysis of Germanic languages in Generative Grammar. I take the broad view
on Generative Grammar that includes theories like LFG, GPSG, and HPSG. I use a reduced and
simplif - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive
1/ I am proud to announce that my paper on Generative approaches to Germanic syntax is published:
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.1073
You may often have asked yourself what we need publishers for. Well, there was peer review and a good editorial process, but my main partner in this was Prof. Oliver Schallert and the editors of the encyclopedia. The remaining task of the publishers is to ruin our manuscripts and they did quite successfully.
#todotxr #ebnf #bnf #wsn #grammar #syntax
Are there any grammar/syntax folks here who've worked with (E)BNF/WSN/etc?
I'm doing some work on todotxt (http://todotxt.org) to define its formal grammar in EBNF. I'm having a terrible time being able to validate its syntax, etc. Every on-line validator I've found (or library via rust) seems to completely disagree on the proper syntax, for example:
foo ::= "1" | "2"' ;
Some don't like the "::", some want ":=", or "=", some don't like the terminator (";") at the end of the line, etc.
I've written EBNF before, although admittedly I just made my own judgement as to the validity of it -- and in this example, the point wasn't to then generate a parsing syntax from it.
But with todotxt, I do want to be able to do that, and I'm struggling with all these little discrepancies.
Any help/thoughts would be really useful.
TIA!
todotxt.orgTodo.txt: Future-proof task tracking in a file you controlTrack your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.txt is software and operating system agnostic; it's searchable, portable, lightweight and easily manipulated.
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Perl is a very nice language to program in
Named loops are the ones I need to study
#Development #Guides
Decoding the SVG ‘path’ element · It’s not as confusing as it initially looks https://ilo.im/164i7u
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#Syntax #PathElement #SVG #JavaScript #WebDev #Frontend
Smashing Magazine · Decoding The SVG path Element: Line Commands — Smashing MagazineSVG is easy — until you meet `path`. However, it’s not as confusing as it initially looks. In this first installment of a pair of articles, Myriam Frisano aims to teach you the basics of `` and its sometimes mystifying commands. With simple examples and visualizations, she’ll help you understand the easy syntax and underlying rules of SVG’s most powerful element so that by the end, you’re fully able to translate SVG semantic tags into a language `path` understands.
Could an #LLM create a full Domain-Specific Language? Can you #vibe your new #DSL? Including a #metamodel, a #textual and a #graphical #syntax?
I tried to answer these and other questions as part of my #talk: “Who will create the languages of the future?” at #OOPLE25.
As an experiment, I used Cursor + Claude to generate a DSL to create #funding.yml files (used in open source projects to specify the management of sponsorship money).
See how it went (and the reflections the experiment triggered!) 
https://modeling-languages.com/vibe-dsling/
(thanks to all that came for the very interesting questions and discussions 
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Modeling Languages · Could an LLM create a full Domain-Specific Language?Can you vibe a DSL? Will future languages be created by language engineers? The answer is "yes but".