Re: [lojban] NORATS, SPACE, and PUBLIC in PEG grammar

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:10:27AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:06:16AM -0700, .alyn.post. wrote:
> > What do the NORATS, SPACE, and PUBLIC statements mean in the
> > Lojban PEG grammar?
> > 
> > They are prefixes to non-terminal statements which I haven't
> > encountered in other PEG files.
> 
> They're used by
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/grammar/rats/peg2rats.pl
> to create the actual Rats! grammar.  It's all a horrible hack, and
> someone should really write something better now that there are
> other decent PEG parser generators around.

To be clear there: the point was that someone making their own
parser could just strip those tags out.  I didn't want there to be
any Rats!-specific stuff in the grammar if I could avoid it.

-Robin

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