[lojban] Re: Official parser problem?

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:24:28PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> The official parser fails on:
> 
>     lo'u mi le'u si lo'u mi le'u
> 
> If I'm reading the pre-processing description correctly, and I'm
> pretty certain I am, that should work just fine.  "lo'u mi le'u" is
> turned into one token; si eats any one token.  No problem.
> 
>     c. If the Lojban word "lo'u" (selma'o LOhU) is identified, search
>     for the closing delimiter "le'u" (selma'o LEhU), ignoring any such
>     closing delimiters absorbed by the previous two steps.  The text
>     between the delimiters should be treated as the single token
>     'any_words_697'.

bancus just pointed out that that may not mean what I thought it
meant. I was taking "The text between the delimiters should be treated
as the single token 'any_words_697'." to mean "all the text between the
delimiters, including the delimiters themselves", but that's probably
not the most natural reading.

Does anyone have strong evidence one way or the other?  I think bancus is
probably right, meaning that that sentence *should* fail.

-Robin

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