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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:51:12PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:20:33PM -0400, Nora LeChevalier wrote:
> [long explanation of what my parser does snipped]
> > I think I've seen someone use "si" as the delimiter.  This majorly 
> > complicates things, no?
> 
> Not at all.  My parser has no problems with this.  I just tested this on
> 
> "zoi si I love zoi! si"
> 
> and
> 
> "zoi si I love zoi! si si Really! si"
> 
> Both of which do exactly what I said they would do.

MMMMmmm.....  Cold crow.  Tasty.

Nora, you were right.

The above is fine, but there are other problem.  Backing up through
ZOI *should* allow one to replace the delimiter with any other
delimiter, but you can't replace a non-SI delimiter with SI.
Furthermore, my parser turns ZOI-clause + SA + ZOI + SI into
nothing, but it should be the start of a SI delimited ZOI clause.

Sigh.

I'm hashing this out over on the wikidiscuss list (i.e. with the
BPFK and others).

My preferred solution is to outlaw SI as a ZOI delimiter.

-Robin

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