[lojban] Re: gleki xisri'i

["Cyril Slobin" <cyril@slobin.pp.ru>]

Cyril (me) said:

> Neither Wirth nor Kernighan and Ritchie said "always reduce",

"Always shift", of course. Just a typo.

Minimiscience said:

> A Lojban parser must absorb as many tokens as possible into the current
> (innermost) grammatical construct, stopping only when it encounters either
> a terminator or a token that cannot continue the construct.

This is the current practice, and this is a good practice, but CLL
contains no such words. CLL contains words about "unambiguity", and
reader not aware of current practice will not necessary read it as
"try to stretch the innermost construct as long as possible". In fact
the first does not mean the second. What we need is to approve this or
similar wording, and say it explicitly.

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http://slobin.pp.ru/ `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
<cyril@slobin.pp.ru> `it means just what I choose it to mean'


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