From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Apr 28 14:21:50 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [65.246.141.36] (helo=mail.reutershealth.com) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19AG44-00037b-00; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:21:32 -0700 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (mail [65.246.141.36]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA02776; Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:18:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:21:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:21:30 -0400 From: John Cowan To: Jordan DeLong Cc: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: BPFK phpbb Message-ID: <20030428211719.GA1100@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <20030428190602.GZ22216@digitalkingdom.org> <20030428194858.18292.qmail@web20506.mail.yahoo.com> <20030428203758.GA99775@allusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030428203758.GA99775@allusion.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-archive-position: 4990 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Jordan DeLong scripsit: > Anyway, I dunno why the text rule allows a nai at the start, It's probably overkill. What we thought was useful was to have "nai" by itself, for dialogues like this: A: .ui. B: nai > Other than the problem with making too many sentences legal, I would > complain that it complicates the parse tree of things like {mi > na.enai do klama}. The first "na" is handled at the same level as > the .e and as part of the structure there. But the second "nai" > (if in UI) is handled at a lower level of the parser (where it > allows UIs after any word). The official parser trawls forward (backtracking on failure) and slurps up things like "na.enai". -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." --Gerald Holton