From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 28 06:12:06 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 28 May 2006 06:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FkL3u-0006rw-Aq for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 May 2006 06:12:06 -0700 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1FkL3s-0006rp-9t for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 28 May 2006 06:12:06 -0700 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 May 2006 13:12:01 -0000 Received: from p508DC35D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO [10.0.0.23]) [80.141.195.93] by mail.gmx.net (mp032) with SMTP; 28 May 2006 15:12:01 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1075244 Message-ID: <4479A19C.5090201@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 15:11:56 +0200 From: Torsten Schlabach User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: machine grammar - general question References: <44791F39.40602@hypermetrics.com> In-Reply-To: <44791F39.40602@hypermetrics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3202 X-Approved-By: tschlabach@gmx.net X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: tschlabach@gmx.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Hal! > I have a friend who swears by LL parsers, > and I'm thinking of getting him to write > (generate) a Lojban parser as a demo... That would definitely be useful IMO. Regards, Torsten Hal Fulton schrieb: > I don't know much about parsing. So forgive > me if something is wrong here. > > I've been told that the Lojban grammar is > written in an "LR" style (as for yacc), as > opposed to an "LL" style (as for Antlr). > > This has something to do with left and right > recursive definitions, but it's been far too > long since I studied this. > > Anyone know if it's ever been done in the > "other" form? Or have a clue how much work > would be involved in transforming it? > > I have a friend who swears by LL parsers, > and I'm thinking of getting him to write > (generate) a Lojban parser as a demo... > > > Cheers, > Hal > > > >