Received: from mail-oa0-f59.google.com ([209.85.219.59]:37728) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WxnUQ-0000NT-KD for lojban-list-archive@lojban.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:19:43 -0700 Received: by mail-oa0-f59.google.com with SMTP id n16sf697287oag.24 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:19:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=20120806; h=date:from:to:message-id:subject:mime-version:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=afF3vjMUyWVT0cxQ/EpzrRtdAyyfPfGeSz3GhhjJO4M=; b=J8/DFK0q5yCbPoBuMTTsC/nt2jjc+qKLjR0Ba5t5YVGzPVIR5oyAfnKE9SyIBFyWQP 8lTE0q75lxRw13htr+Q59wvtpgrDXXSk9Pb47UEKx3Zd77FYU+NVJ3FeCNQHxEjih3Jr YYqS/GrhNbQD/iYkQ3yqQapNWXXFQkh1VhjdQxIUIJaKw8ko8ZDITDrwAnXqTs2Ub9vt 2PLm9fe9ivz2RVm6fGKvYP2tpFllm/3xAl02/q+6eqA6VBnWHAqeTZXAVE84bvUJa/H9 hW2RqcaCzIkSnfqaNgjDl9NFVVz8TG7JEbNfnbKyzWjUZsVWGDX/wyDKE+w4HvZI14+8 h5iQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:message-id:subject:mime-version:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=afF3vjMUyWVT0cxQ/EpzrRtdAyyfPfGeSz3GhhjJO4M=; b=OYt0Beo/cpPANXHRgE++is6JY4UKodu7AJ4VzfDrXwbFmMU3JkqSGwVmKHJ/O23t6T qp4hGS9NbIaTREr5nvJpGtrfKTgrF95HwLwrwD7UkxffOo41xSQqQEi8h/EOKuB6HhBh e8K9zgWi3wyUT0Ya5G9x5ghVn1lu1QrgAKr+EFK2j6TfMk5Dvd8GR8na/hxiOJkYKHqn EMIXrXLozLbzOUjwQoni93uuHK2RqC66+XaDmEc/g5VUeRbFUCdOJjnCWBCrRflCPJHF Q91smx4oPsnR29FO1YM9JmEMFfhM6bi9HpMIXEDTb3O7iSbhzzF51/rVM82tVitRq0Lg 7GHg== X-Received: by 10.140.104.52 with SMTP id z49mr1548qge.12.1403227172450; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:19:32 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.140.40.74 with SMTP id w68ls847882qgw.53.gmail; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:19:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.109.199 with SMTP id l65mr1273qgf.32.1403227172034; Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:19:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Riley Martinez-Lynch To: lojban@googlegroups.com Message-Id: <96882b42-e167-4a7b-88d2-038324354074@googlegroups.com> Subject: [lojban] Does the lojban language include the empty string? MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Sender: shunpiker@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_171_22503704.1403227170839" X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) X-Spam_score: -2.0 X-Spam_score_int: -19 X-Spam_bar: -- ------=_Part_171_22503704.1403227170839 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In the course of working on a script to extract grammatical lojban texts=20 from a stream of heterogenous input, I discovered that camxes considers an= =20 empty string to be a valid lojban text. I tried jbofihe and=20 yacc/grammar.300, and got the same result. Is the empty string (=CE=B5) really intended to be included in the lojban= =20 language, or is this a quirk of the machine grammar implementations? *xu lo'u le'u te gerna lo jbobau* If it is included, as the parsers indicate, null lojban texts are to be=20 found everywhere that you can't parse the beginning of a non-null lojban=20 text. Thoughts? mi'e la mukti mu'o --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ------=_Part_171_22503704.1403227170839 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
In the course of working on a script to extract gramm= atical lojban texts from a stream of heterogenous input, I discovered that = camxes considers an empty string to be a valid lojban text. I tried jbofihe= and yacc/grammar.300, and got the same result.

Is= the empty string (=CE=B5) really intended to be included in the lojban lan= guage, or is this a quirk of the machine grammar implementations?

xu lo'u le'u te gerna lo jbobau
If it is included, as the parsers indicate, null lojban texts = are to be found everywhere that you can't parse the beginning of a non-null= lojban text.

Thoughts?

m= i'e la mukti mu'o

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