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On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:

> Not "so difficult as to be intractable" but "generally believed to
> be impossible".
>
> http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/grammar/index.html
>
> Look for "Old Approach" at the bottom for an explication.

I may be missing something, but there you only say that dealing
with terminators in BNF would require a 20-fold expansion of the
grammar, which may be difficult but not impossible, not even intractable.

What about the PEG grammar, why is that not a complete grammar?
Because of ZOI? If so, isn't Lojban minus ZOI (which is really a way
of introducing non-Lojban into Lojban) completely parsable?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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