From jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Mon May 10 10:48:08 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 10 May 2004 10:48:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41906.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.93.157]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BNEsk-0004zt-FC for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:48:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20040510174730.89881.qmail@web41906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.49.74.2] by web41906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 10 May 2004 10:47:30 PDT Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:47:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jorge "Llambías" Subject: [lojban] Re: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <20040510172128.GY5570@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-archive-position: 7744 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias2000@yahoo.com.ar Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --- Robin Lee Powell wrote: > Unfortunately, this doesn't help with things like "zo broda zei broda", > but I'm inclined to say that that's illegal because ZO acts first, > leaving " zei broda", and a quote is not a single word. It is clear that {zo broda zei broda} is illegal with the current grammar, though not exactly for the reason you say. {zei} grabs the previous _token_ and binds it to the next to deliver a brivla, so you end up with ZO BRIVLA which is illegal. Only ZO any_word_698 is valid. {zo broda si brode} fails for the same reason. {si} erases any_word_698 leaving ZO BRIVLA, which is illegal. I think that if you fix one you should fix the other as well. {da zei de bu} is legal: first {da zei de} delivers BRIVLA, and then {BRIVLA BU} delivers BY. > Opinions on that issue welcome, but it seems pretty clear that ZEI only > acts on single words, and quotes are not single words. ZEI acts on single tokens, doesn't it? mu'o mi'e xorxes __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover