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From: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: CMENE=BRIVLA (was Re: Opinions on "mi viska
  le sa .i mi cusku zo .djan.")
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At 11:29 AM 4/7/04 -0700, Jorge "Llamb=EDas" wrote:
>--- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > Oh, you mean that with infinite lookahead the difference between
> > "le broda <connective> brode" and "le broda <connective> le brode" is
> > obvious, correct?  Hence no need for two sets of connectives for the tw=
o
> > cases?
>
>Exactly.

Precisely the sort of change I feared would get proposed to byfy, and=20
precisely the sort that I will vote to veto.  Sure, with a=20
better-than-LR(1) parser we could make grammar changes that would=20
"simplify" or "improve" the language.  The time to do that was 10 years=20
ago.  We are out of the language design phase, and merely trying to=20
document the *completed* language, fixing things that are undocumented or=20
broken.  It isn't broken, so we don't need to fix it; save it for "Son of=20
Lojban".

lojbab

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