Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long)

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

tk1@despammed.com scripsit:

> Apologies for hijacking this thread, but upon hearing about this use of the
> "error" token, I am starting to feel somewhat uncomfortable. Specifically, I
> fear that using such strange hacks will make it harder to explain (and
> grasp) intuitively when certain words can be elided, without referring to a
> specific 1970's parsing technology.

Yacc error handling is used to supply elidable terminators.  "cu" is 
optional in the grammar, not supplied by error recovery (although using it
does change which terminators may be elided, of course).

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