From lojban-out@lojban.org Fri May 07 14:24:28 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 31066 invoked from network); 7 May 2004 21:24:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.172) by m24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 May 2004 21:24:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 May 2004 21:24:27 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BMCpW-0000sd-4C for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 07 May 2004 14:24:26 -0700 Received: from dsl081-049-134.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.49.134] helo=chain.digitalkingdom.org) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.31) id 1BMCoo-0000s3-FK; Fri, 07 May 2004 14:23:42 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 07 May 2004 14:23:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.31) id 1BMCod-0000rq-Mn for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 14:23:31 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:23:31 -0700 Message-ID: <20040507212331.GJ27947@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040506003409.GI7020@digitalkingdom.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20040506181623.032d1340@pop.east.cox.net> <20040507005112.GL7020@digitalkingdom.org> <87vfj8ofiu.fsf@raphael.poss.name> <20040507211051.GH27947@digitalkingdom.org> <20040507211946.GS22333@skunk.reutershealth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040507211946.GS22333@skunk.reutershealth.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-archive-position: 7696 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: My parser, SI, SA, and ZOI X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22162 On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:19:46PM -0400, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote: > On a related note: > > Robin, are you now allowing "zoi fu I am a blind alley fu si si This > is right fu" as grammatical? Yes. sumti6=( ZOI=( zoi ) zoiClause=( fu I am a blind alley fu si si This is right fu ) free=() ) > What about "zoi fu The beginning and fu si the end fu"? sumti6=( ZOI=( zoi ) zoiClause=( fu The beginning and fu si the end fu ) free=() ) For technical reasons I hope to eventually remedy, exactly *what* my parser is doing with the SI handling isn't being shown, but trust me that it's doing what you'd expect. > I'd guess that your preparser can't cope with either, No, but I stopped using that several days ago in favour of *very* simple Rats!-specific semantic tests in the PEG grammar. > but what do you think is the Ideal Right Thing? That depends whether one treats a complete ZOI clause as one word, four words, or some other number. If one treats it as four words, I think that both of those should be legal. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Many philosophical problems are caused by such things as the simple inability to shut up." -- David Stove, liberally paraphrased. http://www.lojban.org/ *** loi pimlu na srana .i ti rokci morsi