[lextypes] Patterns in DLL

[John Cowan]

Bob Foster scripsit:

> Since there is (in general and in this case) no way to merge the results,
> should I assume that parse results are specific to a datatype?

I don't see how there could be any other way.  1938 could parse as just the
integer part of a number datatype, but as century-year in an appropriately
defined date datatype.

> (If yes, this implies to me that there is an api that can interrogate the
> decorated-by-means-as-yet-unspecified node to obtain a specific datatype
> result, or all of the datatype results. That is, if there is no api, what is
> the point? If there is one, it must offer one or both of these services.)

+1

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