[lojban] Re: [lojban-beginners] A challenge for computer science/programming geeks: The LLG wants to give you $500!

["Chris Capel" <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 15:33, Stephen Pollei <stephen.pollei@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the grammar level though I'm unsure
> if the extra invalid texts it would parse would: a) exist

Yes, definitely. There are some places where the greedy parsing is
wrong, including one bug I myself fixed.

> b) be
> noticeable.

Yes. I imagine the PEG-superset-CFG would give dozens or hundreds of
parse trees for pretty much every sentence longer than a few words.

Chris Capel
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