From lojbab@lojban.org Sun Mar 21 17:20:40 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 43064 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2004 01:20:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Mar 2004 01:20:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakemtao02.cox.net) (68.1.17.243) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Mar 2004 01:20:38 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.228.12.146]) by lakemtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040322012031.RXBU13694.lakemtao02.cox.net@bob.lojban.org>; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:20:31 -0500 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20040321190741.0333f600@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: lojbab@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:52:40 -0500 To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org,lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <20040321195444.GA30473@digitalkingdom.org> References: <20040321191809.GB32271@digitalkingdom.org> <20040321184454.GA32271@digitalkingdom.org> <20040321191809.GB32271@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 68.1.17.243 From: Bob LeChevalier Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Error in bnf.300 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21758 At 11:54 AM 3/21/04 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >But the "I jek" has already been eaten, so the appropriate parte of >paragraph can't match. Oops, nowhere to go. Oh well. > >(I know this occurs because I just watched my PEG parser do it several >times until I changed the ordering; it's fixed now, and is the only >Lojban parser I'm aware of that can parse "mi broda .i je bo no da zo'u >broda"). It prescriptively shouldn't be able to. Under TECHFIX 45, the ability to put an unmarked prenex after an IJEK was specifically and intentionally removed. It formerly had been able to do so, so the change was made because Cowan (and others) were convinced that it was wrong to allow this. -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org