From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 17 17:12:17 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B3m4x-0003Sj-Cq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:12:11 -0800 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:12:11 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Official parser problem? Message-ID: <20040318011211.GH11847@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040317222428.GZ11847@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040317222428.GZ11847@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7229 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:24:28PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > The official parser fails on: > > lo'u mi le'u si lo'u mi le'u > > If I'm reading the pre-processing description correctly, and I'm > pretty certain I am, that should work just fine. "lo'u mi le'u" is > turned into one token; si eats any one token. No problem. > > c. If the Lojban word "lo'u" (selma'o LOhU) is identified, search > for the closing delimiter "le'u" (selma'o LEhU), ignoring any such > closing delimiters absorbed by the previous two steps. The text > between the delimiters should be treated as the single token > 'any_words_697'. bancus just pointed out that that may not mean what I thought it meant. I was taking "The text between the delimiters should be treated as the single token 'any_words_697'." to mean "all the text between the delimiters, including the delimiters themselves", but that's probably not the most natural reading. Does anyone have strong evidence one way or the other? I think bancus is probably right, meaning that that sentence *should* fail. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui