From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Jul 11 23:43:54 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:43:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0YRa-0005t7-IZ for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:43:34 -0700 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G0YRZ-0005sy-47 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:43:34 -0700 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so177323uge for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:43:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BfL92/iJejRQkc+v64nYXAcHCHdJ01FIIQcGMXyCo/YjV+15IkocFIHed/44/79yTTXF1Zar2dMZGnPDYE+De8jBm/tvSgxiMoc88iAEgETp6HPL7XXNZKMfbk3yMctENnUh+yx1at62WBDyEsiYYiievU5CQokv6BclCn8cYQw= Received: by 10.67.26.7 with SMTP id d7mr290161ugj; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.30.12 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:43:31 -0400 From: "Jonathan Gibbons" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Is Lojban a CFG? (was Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Enumerating in Lojban) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-archive-position: 12145 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jonored@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list To be far too annoying, given > le nu le broda brode brodi why not just state "Lojban is left-grouping by default" to disambiguate the whole set of these statements, rather than deciding "that's not Lojban"? (left-grouping being the same concept as leftmost-derivation) I can't think of any situation that wouldn't be disambiguated by that... the above would group as "(le (nu (le (broda brode)) brodi))", and there'd be a simple rule to tell what the grouping should be. I'm really wondering why that design decision was made. I'll probably quiet down about it soon, though. -Jonathan To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.