[lojban] Re: Annotated PEG grammar

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 14:12, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>  gek-sentence <- gek subsentence gik subsentence tail-terms / tag? KE free* gek-sentence KEhE? free* / NA free* gek-sentence
>>
>> Perhaps point out why KE is used here at all. It's not needed to do
>> any grouping, since gek already handles that by itself. I think the
>> only reason is to separate "tag" from a possibe gek of form "tag GI"
>> since otherwise "tag tag" could collapse into a single tag.
>
> I believe the other examples is when you have, e.g., four subsentences
> all connected with geks and you want to group the middle two somehow.

KE-KEhE is never needed with geks for grouping purposes. The case you
give could be:

ge broda gi (ga (go brode gi brodi) gi brodo)

or

ge (ga broda gi (go brode gi brodi)) gi brodo

KE-KEhE wouldn't add anything.ether way.


>>>> sumti-4 <- sumti-5 / gek sumti gik sumti-4
>>
>>  Do you think that
> particular comment is noteworthy?

I think it's worth keeping in mind that this rule connects different
level of things so as to "fix" that if possible before making it
official.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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