[lojban-beginners] Re: Enumerating in Lojban

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:19:51PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
> On 7/10/06, Jorge Llamb?as <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> >One possibility:
> >
> >       mi rirni ci da noi verba li 12 fa'u li 10 fa'u li 4
> 
> Can {fa'u} be used with numbers?
> 
> (AKA: jbofihe doesn't like it but I don't know how much to make of
> that)

L*(1) parsers (all of them, I believe) have Problems with joi.
Here's how to make it work with the official parser and/or jbofihe:

mi rirni ci da noi verba li 12 lo'o fa'u li 10 lo'o fa'u li 4

As solving this problem only requires two tokens of lookahead, it's
pretty sad.  This is one of the reasons I'm happy with camxes
(http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell//hobbies/lojban/grammar/), which has no
problem with this at all (and needed no additional work to "fix"
this "problem").

-Robin

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