Feature request: Path append operators for strings

[John Colvin]

On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 10:07:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/7/2013 2:16 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Sunday, 7 July 2013 at 08:26:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 7/6/2013 11:11 PM, TommiT wrote:
>>>>> I can see machine translation that is based on statistical 
>>>>> correlation with a
>>>>> sufficiently large corpus of human translations, but I 
>>>>> don't see much hope for
>>>>> actual understanding of non-literal speech in the 
>>>>> foreseeable future, and I'm
>>>>> actually rather glad of that.
>>>>
>>>> You haven't read Ray Kurzweil's latest books then or you 
>>>> just don't think he's
>>>> right?
>>>
>>> Spend a little quality time with Siri. I did, and discovered 
>>> it was hardly any
>>> better than Eliza, which is a few lines of BASIC written in 
>>> the 1970's.
>>
>> One word: Watson.
>
> Ask Watson what its favorite color is.
>
> Oh well.

That's asking for an awful lot more than good natural language 
processing.