Re: [lojban] Re: Official parser problem?

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> To parse: "lo'u mi le'u si lo'u mi le'u"       
> 
> You do step "c" of the preprocessing                         
> 
> LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU si LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU   
> 
> 
> LOhU any_words_697{mi} LOhU any_words_697{mi} LEhU           

So far so good.  But this is ungrammatical, because between LOhU and
LEhU you have three tokens, and only one is permitted, which must be
an any_words_697.

> Now, theoretically this is one big, long lo'u...le'u string.

Nope.  It's OK for a "lo'u...le'u" string to contain a "lo'u" *word*,
but what you have here is a "lo'u" *token*.

> But the grammar as writen will not accomodate it.

Rightly so.

> Of course, my grammar will.  :-)

It shouldn't.

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