[lojban] Lexing words that end in "la" before a cmevla

[Pierre Abbat <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

xorxes and I have a disagreement about lexing a word that ends in "la", "lai", 
"la'i", or "doi", but is not a cmavo, before a cmene. The example in my test 
file is {muSTEl,aVIson}. I am following the procedure in BRKWORDS.TXT, which 
is to find a piece ending with a consonant, search backward for a cmegadri, 
and break on both sides of it, thus producing {muSTE l,a VIson}. {muSTE} is 
then called an error. xorxes wrote a PEG, which looks forward, finds {mu 
STEla}, and resolves the rest as a name. It tries the whole phrase as a cmene 
first, but that fails because of the "la". I can get the same result by 
breaking (popygau) only after the cmegadri, but would that break (pofri'a) 
anything? Why was the algorithm written like that?

phma
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