From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Mon Aug 16 19:24:27 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 16 Aug 1993 23:25:20 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Mon, 16 Aug 1993 23:25:16 -0400 Message-Id: <199308170325.AA04139@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 2305; Mon, 16 Aug 93 23:24:02 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 7160; Mon, 16 Aug 1993 23:24:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 23:24:27 EDT Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: TEXT: xislu mu'ucutci (roller skating) X-To: nsn@MULLIAN.EE.MU.OZ.AU X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: O X-Status: It sounds like Rob has roughly the same problem I do with the BNF grammar. I can read it, but it's a struggle to use it, because the YACC grammar is so much clearer on what is legal, and uses no shortcuts. The BNF would be more readable if the multiple options were shown on separate lines like YACC grammar does, but then it wouldn't be so much shorter than the YACC grammar. I agree that a range of examples analyzing sentences using both BNF and YACC grammar would be very useful for teaching people how to use it. I'd love to have someone tacjkle this for the dictionary (volunteers anyone???) lojbab