From cowan@ccil.org Tue May 18 19:43:21 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 71134 invoked from network); 19 May 2004 02:43:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 19 May 2004 02:43:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 May 2004 02:43:20 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 4.33) id 1BQH34-0001iB-Kn; Tue, 18 May 2004 22:43:14 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:43:14 -0400 To: Jorge =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llamb=EDas?= Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <20040519024314.GB6287@ccil.org> References: <40AA7F8E.80107@brucewebber.com> <20040518220812.21780.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040518220812.21780.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 192.190.237.100 From: John Cowan Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Actual features for my parser, and a Java request X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22385 Jorge Llamb?as scripsit: > I don't know what Robin has in mind, but one output that might look > more readable is to reduce everything that has a single thing inside > to that thing. So if I'm not mistaken Robin's sentence would reduce to: That's what the official parser does, unless you give it some switch or other -- exactly what, I forget. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. --Thomas Henry Huxley