[lojban-beginners] Re: Enumerating in Lojban

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

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:41:29PM -0400, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> Ah, I think I see the trick. So, instead of using a grouping rule
> like everywhere else, with the elidable terminators they decided
> to just say that anything caught being ambiguous because of a lack
> of a terminator was to be thrown out of the language? 

Did you actually read anything I wrote?  Or the pages I linked to?

If you would like to demonstrate a system other than PEG that
handles elidable terminators in the context of a formal grammar,
please be my guest.  Until then, I'm really not sure what we're
talking about.

> such that rather than "le xekri ckafi" being disambiguated by a
> grouping rule like "tanru group tighter than descriptions", it's
> ungrammatical, because it could either be "(le xekri) ckafi" or
> "le (xekri ckafi)"? 

I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.  Precedence of
"le xekri ckafi" is obviously handleable in CFGs, and has nothing
whatever to do with the difficulty of handling elidable terminators
in a formal language.

-Robin

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