grammar baseline update

[Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>]

John Cowan has not had time to respond to the posted question about proposed
YACC changes, because of the Christmas holidays and the pressure to get
everything else done.

The proposal idnetified several areas where free modifiers and the like
could be added with no impact to the language.  This proposal has been
submitted several months before and John had made no public or private
response.

The answer is that the changes  were approved several months ago, but had not
been announced since John had not had time to develop a YACC grammar for the
changes, and do his customary writeup.  This change will be Change 47 and
will be the final change to the YACC grammar before the baseline.  The
approved changes add possibilities to the grammar that have never knowingly
been used, and there is no significant impact to the book or to any
usage or teaching that we have done, but which seem to more systematically
represent the possible places where freemods can occur without problems.

Cowan is out of town until the New Year and has limited posting capability.
He will probably have all text updates done by the end of the year, but
may not be able to get things uploaded and posted till he gets back.  We
will not formally announce the baseline until the material is actually
 availableon our digex ftp site, so ther emay be a day or two of delay, though
 not due to
continuing change.

Hopefully we will get the logistics worked out by the new year, and we will
keep people informed as best we can.  Happy Holidays to all of you.

lojbab
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