Re: ANA() SANA() Macros are wrong...

From: Peter Ajamian (peter@pajamian.dhs.org)
Date: 03/10/01


George Greer wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Peter Ajamian wrote:
>
> >hrmmm, I just realized that my fix relies on obj names of only one word,
> >so if an object is named, for example, "Yellow flag", (oh wait, that
> >would work, but imagine for a minute that "yellow" doesn't have any
> >vowels other than the initial "y" and it's supposed to return "an") it
> >would return "a" because it would find a vowel in the word "flag".  Try
> >this instead...
>
> But what correlation of object descriptions to aliases? Is the first alias
> the first word of the description? Do people put 'a' in the short
> descriptions?  Not much we can do without NLP.

What do descriptions and aliases have to do with that?  it's checking
name, I thought that was different?  Anyways, my objective here is just
to correct an oversight in the macros the way they were, they won't work
right for a lot of words that start with "y".

Regards, Peter

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