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On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:48:46AM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> 
> --- jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
> > 
> > I will not support, however, any structural changes that *could* be
> > made as a result of going to infinite-lookahead grammar: no A/JA
> > merger, e.g. For one thing, human beings don't support infinite
> > lookahead.  But I am okay with accepting things like "le broda joi
> > le brodi", since that is not truly an ambiguity but just the result
> > of smarter resolution of elidable terminators than Yacc allows.
> 
> Isn't that self-contradictory? Why is infinite-lookahead acceptable
> for JOI but not for JE? 

Because JA/A is formalized in the grammar; elidable terminators are not.

-Robin

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