From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Nov 16 12:52:10 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L1obK-00023o-3p for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:52:10 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.247]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L1obH-00023f-Vq for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:52:10 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2372325rvf.46 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:52:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=q42j02SnIsw27x2pjrt95YhVupXyIzVyCaoi8V58rYM=; b=QbrSk+9+8rv4y6QTcZt+6E+yYGHLFdNtGosc995ln3Wasu4JmhD4aMCfuBa3FdG+s1 cyK/Nj/kk9CnQKmz5kQz7+xL+18XQqJhmxVwUF3xs0N3ICjBfk2E3+U2Lxy8tu9ecQ5o 9FKrhz91Q1KcPduHhv9Aa/0ZkmXwyDnezYO+g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=bI6DzgU7U3wW5o0q/N6XF+MPRclvbIyHAEcpwn+T2sEdr71fyj60Rx2sJDUCEW0lIv caKCnZDJAte7j8Qgqvv2wyHtVqXMcf/y4ffINs2x/3R5piTEtw4U/sD5twN6l3/JTc34 r4UGDE6BtYZb4/EkzYIaWVkTeyvVblYC82Qsg= Received: by 10.141.45.16 with SMTP id x16mr1837850rvj.85.1226868727051; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:52:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.202.10 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:52:06 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <737b61f30811161252x6f8f17e7s1d4348f7d3f9ae74@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:52:06 -0600 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Annotated PEG grammar In-Reply-To: <925d17560811161240m3daa490ax5c998bde0ce32da2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <737b61f30811151245n352f23dala9685c894d991550@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560811161212p58b0e789mb61889dddc04c2ba@mail.gmail.com> <737b61f30811161221r476aed32o1989aa1f1ebadedf@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560811161240m3daa490ax5c998bde0ce32da2@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 15048 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: pdf23ds@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 14:40, Jorge Llambías wrote: >>>>> sumti-4 <- sumti-5 / gek sumti gik sumti-4 >>> >>> Do you think that >> particular comment is noteworthy? > > I think it's worth keeping in mind that this rule connects different > level of things so as to "fix" that if possible before making it > official. It turns out that sumti-1 is the first member of a series in the grammar to reference a previous member of its series. So sumti-4 is very much the rule, not the exception. The only reason that comment was there is because it was a comment I put in my copy of the grammar file while debugging something about the grammar parse tree. Do you think more rules should reference earlier members of the series when possible? That would very much change the semantics of the language, albeit often in gray areas. Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet) 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.