[lojban-beginners] Re: The /.../ operator in the Lojban EBNF grammar

[Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name>]

Excellent; I had know idea that there are PEGs for both syntax and  
morphology (I was going to ask about the latter too)! Thanks for the  
links.

On 4 December 2009, at 5:53 AM, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Joshua Choi <joshua@choi.name> wrote:
> > Does it have a consistent syntactic meaning across the
> > grammar, or is it really case-by-case? Can it be converted into a  
> > more
> > standard EBNF syntax?
>
> It's informal. The only complete formal grammar for Lojban is the PEG
> grammar, see:
>
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/grammar/lojban.peg.txt
>
> The EBNF is written in a more human-friendly way though, so the PEG
> will be easier to follow once you are already familiar with the EBNF.
>
> The PEG also goes all the way down to the phonemes:
>
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=BPFK%20Section%3A%20PEG%20Morphology%20Algorithm
>
> which the EBNF doesn't do at all.
>
> mu'o mi'e xorxes