Hi Edgar,

just form a compound from 2-3 single words, the result can be ambiguous  
without word markers:

  "thereareend", can you see 1) rear, 2) the, 3) there, 4) are?

Other examples are easy to construct. The larger the vocabulary, the  
larger the probability that catenations of just two words yields ambiguity  
- in the eyes of the reader (user or maintainer of your software).

Without sensitivity you can also have word markers but also are free to  
introduce as much confusion as language permits at this level. Some  
examples found by googel:

	itemspacing --> item spacing vs. items pacing
       menuselect --> menu select vs. menus elect
       nodeemphasize --> no deemphasize vs. node emphasize
       notequal --> not equal vs. note qual
       notext --> no text vs. not ext
       tabstop --> tab stop vs. tabs top
       topage --> to page vs. top age

/Klaus

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:06:49 +0100, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene  
<edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> Why MOM should be different of mom ?
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> Always think this is a not so good characteristic of Smalltalk.
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> I like read some answers.
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> Edgar
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