From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sat Jun 19 20:04:30 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:04:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.32) id 1Bbsd5-0004Ku-Vk for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:04:24 -0700 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:04:23 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Strange Alice sentence. Message-ID: <20040620030423.GK7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040620021248.GG7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040620022645.GH7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040620025721.GI7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20040620025953.GJ7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040620025953.GJ7569@chain.digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 8123 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 Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:59:53PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:57:21PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > A different case (simplified): > > > > broda sei abu to broda > > > > Again, jbofihe and the official parser choke on this. > > Ah, I see the problem: sei can't contain to...toi, so the sei has no > selbri. > > xorxes, that's a bug in Alice. Oh, no, my bad. A SEI clause is (in PEG): SEI free* (terms (CU free*)?)? selbri SEhU? One of the options for 'free' is a TO clause, so it works out just fine in the end. That kind of look-ahead can't be done it LR(1), though. This episode of Thinking Out Loud Theatre has been brought to you by I Ate Too Much Sugar Today Productions, Ltd. -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