Perfect forms (Huet/Deshpande)

[funderburkjim]

Although I have at one time written code to generate conjugation tables for the perfect tense, that code is so complex as to be difficult to improve and maintain. Thus, at least for the current version of the csl-inflect repository, I will be using perfect forms repackaged from trusted sources. Currently these sources are

• A Sanskrit Primer by Madhav M. Deshpande, 2003, pages 305ff. See tables_prf_deshpande.txt.
• SL_morph.xml as computed by Gerard Huet
  • See huetdata/download for how Huet's data is obtained
  • The resulting perfect forms are in tables_prf_huet.txt

As part of this revision, I developed a comparison of forms between these two sources; there were only a handful of differences. Gerard was able to resolve these differences. When he next publishes SL_morph.xml, I'll redo this part of csl-inflect.

[funderburkjim]

Technical note

For details of how perfect forms are extracted from Huet's SL_morph.xml corpus of forms, see huetdata.

For details regarding the merger of Deshpande forms with those of Huet, see verbs/pysanskritv2/manual/prf.

[gasyoun]

Gerard was able to resolve these differences

Oh, that means he has accepted them.

code is so complex as to be difficult to improve and maintain

Indian style code :1st_place_medal: