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[lojban] Re: Strange Alice sentence.
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:59:53PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:57:21PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > A different case (simplified):
> >
> > broda sei abu to broda
> >
> > Again, jbofihe and the official parser choke on this.
>
> Ah, I see the problem: sei can't contain to...toi, so the sei has no
> selbri.
>
> xorxes, that's a bug in Alice.
Oh, no, my bad.
A SEI clause is (in PEG):
SEI free* (terms (CU free*)?)? selbri SEhU?
One of the options for 'free' is a TO clause, so it works out just fine
in the end. That kind of look-ahead can't be done it LR(1), though.
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