Re: Extracting in an Alternation (Was Scoring Function Question)

Philip Guenther wrote,

| Actually, putting an extraction in an alternation doesn't _always_
| break.  It just doesn't always _work_, and when it doesn't the results
| are rather peculiar.

Can you give any details or examples of situations where it can be expected
to work and those where it cannot be expected to?

I figured it almost always bombed, but in Rik Kabel's tests it worked
properly.