[lojban] Re: Annotated PEG grammar

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

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 14:52, Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Now that I look at it, that sumti-1 rule looks fishy. Why is it
referencing sumti instead of sumti-1? The only thing in sumti is VUhO,
which looks just wrong.

Chris Capel
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