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Re: [lojban] Re: Official parser problem?



Robin Lee Powell scripsit:

> >     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.

It's definitely not the intent: see LOhU_quote_436.  The O.P. packages
up all the quoted words into a synthetic any_words_697 token.

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