From cowan@ccil.org Wed Mar 17 17:34:41 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:34:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.ccil.org ([192.190.237.100]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.30) id 1B3mQe-0003rL-6Q for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:34:36 -0800 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B3mQD-0003Qi-00 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:34:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:34:09 -0500 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Official parser problem? Message-ID: <20040318013409.GB12076@ccil.org> References: <20040317222428.GZ11847@digitalkingdom.org> <20040318011211.GH11847@digitalkingdom.org> <20040318012328.GI11847@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040318012328.GI11847@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: John Cowan X-archive-position: 7234 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: cowan@ccil.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > To parse: "lo'u mi le'u si lo'u mi le'u" > > You do step "c" of the preprocessing > > LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU si LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU > > > LOhU any_words_697{mi} LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU So far so good. But this is ungrammatical, because between LOhU and LEhU you have three tokens, and only one is permitted, which must be an any_words_697. > Now, theoretically this is one big, long lo'u...le'u string. Nope. It's OK for a "lo'u...le'u" string to contain a "lo'u" *word*, but what you have here is a "lo'u" *token*. > But the grammar as writen will not accomodate it. Rightly so. > Of course, my grammar will. :-) It shouldn't. -- MEET US AT POINT ORANGE AT MIDNIGHT BRING YOUR DUCK OR PREPARE TO FACE WUGGUMS John Cowan http://www.reutershealth.com jcowan@reutershealth.com