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It is ambiguous without external context; and is used to demarcate the last item in the list (at least that's what I was taught in school in the UK). For examp
by radicalbyte 9y ago
It is ambiguous without external context; and is used to demarcate the last item in the list (at least that's what I was taught in school in the UK).
For example:
To joe blogs, the pope, my cat and ferrari.
So the Pope is called Joe and is a cat?
Let's think for a moment. How would I write that if Pope Joe was my Cat?
To joe blogs (the pope and my cat) and ferrari.
And for your example, if I only had the comma to punctuate then this is the only way I could write it unambiguously:
To my mother Ayn Rand, and my daughter.
I think that this whole thread is an excellent argument against any attempts to encode any sort of rule set in a language wholly incapable of encoding it unambiguously.