[lojban] Re: Why we should cancel the vote or all vote NO (was RE: Official Statement- LLG Board approves new baseline policy

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

And Rosta scripsit:

> I understand now. In saying that the parser should take input from
> the mahoste I did not mean "somebody should go and do the work of
> modifying the existing parser". I meant "conceptually, the right
> way for a parser to work is for it to take input from a mahoste".
> That wasn't a complaint.

And to clarify what I said:

The current parser does not take input from a ma'oste, though it descends
from a version that did take input from a ma'oste at compile time (not
run time).  This was changed in order to make the parser run faster.
The current parser can *output* a ma'oste reflecting its compiled-in
knowledge.

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