[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojban names (cmene)

[m.kornig@sondal.net]

Selon Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com>:

> > What is a parser??
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing>
>
> What you were asking for actually was a lexer, which would provide
> the input to the parser. Lojban actually incorporates lexing as part
> of parsing.

So parsing means performing a syntactic analysis. Like what
compilers (of computer code that is written in some computer
language) do. Right?

Well, the parser I was thinking of would probably have to
detect/recognize vowels in a name (sequence of characters),
probably break down the word into syllables, check the presence
of the period at the end, check consonant clusters, etc.
And eventually decide whether or not all this is within the
Lojban spelling rules.

>From your answers so far I conclude that such a parser
doesn't exist/isn't available on the net?

Martin