Re: [lojban] Re: fi'u was Re:lanzu usage

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 09:53 AM 3/25/04 -0800, Jorge "Llambías" wrote:
>We should change the grammar from:
>
>   number = PA [PA | lerfu-word] ...
>   lerfu-string = lerfu-word [PA | lerfu-word] ...
>
>to:
>
>   number = PA ...
>   lerfu-string = lerfu-word ...
>
>Adding numbers to lerfu strings would remain relatively easy
>using {PA bu}. Letters as digits don't make much sense anyway.
>They are certainly not worth the trouble in boi's that they
>cost us.

Tell it to the people who came up with the idea of using letters for hex 
digits.  Lojban has cmavo for the 6 hex digits, but for higher bases, it 
seems that history has indicated the use of lerfu as the convention.


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