[lojban] Re: Annotated PEG grammar

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

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 14:40, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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.

It turns out that sumti-1 is the first member of a series in the
grammar to reference a previous member of its series. So sumti-4 is
very much the rule, not the exception. The only reason that comment
was there is because it was a comment I put in my copy of the grammar
file while debugging something about the grammar parse tree. Do you
think more rules should reference earlier members of the series when
possible? That would very much change the semantics of the language,
albeit often in gray areas.

Chris Capel
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