[lojban] Re: Is Lojban a CFG? (was Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Enumerating in Lojban)

["Jonathan Gibbons" <jonored@gmail.com>]

To be far too annoying, given

> le nu le broda brode brodi

why not just state "Lojban is left-grouping by default" to
disambiguate the whole set of these statements, rather than deciding
"that's not Lojban"? (left-grouping being the same concept as
leftmost-derivation) I can't think of any situation that wouldn't be
disambiguated by that... the above would group as
"(le (nu (le (broda brode)) brodi))",
and there'd be a simple rule to tell what the grouping should be.

I'm really wondering why that design decision was made. I'll probably
quiet down about it soon, though.

-Jonathan


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