From LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Nov 29 19:37:04 1995 Received: from VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (vms.dc.lsoft.com [205.186.43.2]) by locke.ccil.org (8.6.9/8.6.10) with ESMTP id TAA23847 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 19:37:02 -0500 Message-Id: <199511300037.TAA23847@locke.ccil.org> Received: from PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM (205.186.43.4) by VMS.DC.LSOFT.COM (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 24D828FF ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 19:27:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:22:12 -0700 Reply-To: Chris Bogart Sender: Lojban list From: Chris Bogart Subject: Re: TECH: PROPOSED GRAMMAR CHANGE X2: non-logical bridi-tail X-To: lojban@cuvmb.bitnet To: John Cowan Status: OR John Cowan, in response to a change proposed by Jorge: >This change also looks YACC-safe. However (and this applies to X1 as well), >changes to the preparser are never very certain until they've been coded >up and tested, because the grammar depends on magic selma'o that don't >really exist, and it's only a guess whether the preparser can insert them >correctly. Has there been much thought put into finding/writing a better parser than YACC so we don't need these messy tricks? I realize it would be a pain in the butt to switch over at this late date, though. ____ Chris Bogart \ / http://www.quetzal.com Boulder, CO \/ cbogart@quetzal.com