[lojban] Re: Annotated PEG grammar

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

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:48, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
> (1) As Stephen points ot, "!jek !joik" duplicates "!joik-jek".

The only cruft-reducing change so far I've made is to get rid of stag,
which was fairly egregious. If you want to keep a version somewhere
that makes changes you're fairly sure are sound, I'll be glad to
incorporate those into Lojgloss for further verification. And the
guide--I suppose. It's not like I'm currently annotating the
"official" version.

> (2) Putting the restriction in front of "free*" makes no sense,
> because that would mean that for example ".i je broda" is blocked,

But considering your (3) would not be being matched in the first
place. (What's the Lojban tense for "be being" or "have been being"?)

> Conclusion: we must get rid of that "!jek !joik !joik-jek", or else
> explain better what it is doing there.

Sounds good. As for an explanation, I know that Robin tried to modify
the old grammar only minimally in converting it to PEG. Were those in
the old one, and not necessary any longer?

Chris Capel
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