From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Fri Apr 30 16:55:38 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:55:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BJhqu-0007o6-3Q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:55:32 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:55:32 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: My parser and ZOI Message-ID: <20040430235532.GI14939@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040430233919.GE14939@digitalkingdom.org> <20040430235015.76542.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040430235015.76542.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 7608 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 Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > > --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > What this does is replace[1] the zoi boundary word (i.e. gy in "zoi > > gy whee! gy") with the string QZOIMARKER. That string was chosen to > > be descriptive. The Q is there to make sure it's not valid Lojban, > > so that the pre-processor's efforts can never be mis-construed as > > valid for some reason other than processing ZOI correctly. > > Could there be a problem if the string QZOIMARKER appears within the > quoted text? Something like zoi gy .... QZOIMARKER ... gy? This would, without question, cause a problem. Simple fix is to have the pre-processor s/QZOIMARKER/qZOIMARKER/g or similar, but that's such a special case I'm not feeling the urge to put a lot of effort into it. > Probably not very frequent, except maybe when discussing you parser in > Lojban. Right. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi