From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Nov 16 13:00:52 2008 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:00:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L1ojk-0002OP-Kb for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:00:52 -0800 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.244]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L1ojh-0002O2-Gy for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:00:52 -0800 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2374563rvf.46 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:00:48 -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=T1gop74NucJC8vdWmD+7epOC3pqRZhnSH9tvh+fBTg0=; b=g3pKSIN72QOGWNi/E6vDS3BaiwpKiWn3uWd/yqBKPZ6Ui0aoL3rqGdArseYF3nSmOh 8jJGoKirAP89NaCh1m87LWqfohM+6El3OMoOF4Cts5zcwblY5CiO6VWrUFvSJPXrm0t6 d+igX/Imp9SAHcPdumDIqnzLism8LprdKBk9o= 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=Amk4G/9AMmT7hsp+770L0XdjonuxMVIEzqbp1vX7yJTmsxPVq3TYa2MOkvanEeVbME 2IwmuxsuRECGj9rFZ4x5IwXB0LipDoVcLOXMNGlXzZ2UsK6YZHz6kutz937EbSuqFH04 7pfvzRwxIsWyXRYWDuWM3obk8kmce71EsfmbI= Received: by 10.140.126.14 with SMTP id y14mr1845292rvc.4.1226869248730; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:00:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.202.10 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:00:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <737b61f30811161300n49bb161dva4f44a80326d4c42@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:00:48 -0600 From: "Chris Capel" To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Annotated PEG grammar In-Reply-To: <737b61f30811161252x6f8f17e7s1d4348f7d3f9ae74@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <737b61f30811151245n352f23dala9685c894d991550@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560811161212p58b0e789mb61889dddc04c2ba@mail.gmail.com> <737b61f30811161221r476aed32o1989aa1f1ebadedf@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560811161240m3daa490ax5c998bde0ce32da2@mail.gmail.com> <737b61f30811161252x6f8f17e7s1d4348f7d3f9ae74@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 15049 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 14:52, Chris Capel wrote: > 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. Now that I look at it, that sumti-1 rule looks fishy. Why is it referencing sumti instead of sumti-1? The only thing in sumti is VUhO, which looks just wrong. 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.