Re: [lojban] Just Bizarre (offical parser stuff)

[Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 07:25 PM 3/29/04 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>$ echo "mi troci le nu bapli le za'i le kagni poi ponse le skami pe la 
>duramater ku ku ku le nu cpacu la paitn" | parser
>3;0;00moi ke lojbo genturfa'i
>Copyright 1991,1992,1993 The Logical Languages Group, Inc.  All Rights
>Reserved
>(mi {troci <[(le {nu <bapli VAU> KEI} ku) (le {nu <cpacu [(la paitn) VAU]> 
>KEI} KU)] VAU>})
>
>
>That's just *wierd*.  It ate like 80% of the sentence without a trace.

I don't know why the stuff disappeared, but the sentence is ungrammatical 
(and the YACC parser has never been good at telling people why something is 
bad - it just tries to recover; the 2.33 parser was somewhat more robust at 
this than the 3.0 parser, as I recall).  When something weird happens, I 
break it into pieces, and in this case it was easy to find a problem.

The le za'i abstraction has no selbri that I can tell; the third ku 
terminates it and probably confuses the parser.


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lojbab                                             lojbab@lojban.org
Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
(Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.)
Artificial language Loglan/Lojban:                 http://www.lojban.org




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