From lojban-out@lojban.org Sun Mar 28 17:46:47 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 28169 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2004 01:46:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.166) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Mar 2004 01:46:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2004 01:46:45 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B7lrQ-0001GE-Mr for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:46:44 -0800 Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7lqt-0001F3-Jf; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:46:11 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:46:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1B7lqi-0001Ei-CO for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:46:00 -0800 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:46:00 -0800 Message-ID: <20040329014600.GJ6569@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040328104136.GA6569@digitalkingdom.org> <20040329014313.GD18719@ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040329014313.GD18719@ccil.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-archive-position: 7379 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-list To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell Reply-To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Official Parser wierdness I have no intention of investigating. X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21853 On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 08:43:13PM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > > > The official parser accepts "mi djuno le du'u" with no problems: > > > > 1 terms_80 mi > > 2 selbri_130 djuno > > 3 tail_terms_71 VAU > > 4 bridi_tail_50 2 3 > > 5 text_0 1 4 > > > > Seems rather odd to *me*. > > This is a known problem: if there is a grammar error in the last two > tokens, the yacc skeleton can't cope. Its rule is to skip down three > tokens before attempting error recovery, but instead it sees EOF and > stops parsing, causing the last token or two to be quietly ignored. > Another result of abusing error recovery. Aaaah. It all makes sense. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui