[lojban] Re: Official parser problem?

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

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:30:29PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> 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: 

*What* isn't the intent?

> see LOhU_quote_436.  

Oh, believe me, I did.

> The O.P. packages up all the quoted words into a synthetic
> any_words_697 token.

Yes, I'm aware.

-Robin, who has been reading the pre-processing description for most of
today.

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