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Re: [lojban] any-word-SA-handling clarification
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:11:24AM -0700, .alyn.post. wrote:
>> The Lojban PEG grammar has the following production:
>>
>> any-word-SA-handling <- BRIVLA-pre
>> / known-cmavo-SA
>> / !known-cmavo-pre
>> CMAVO-pre
>> / CMENE-pre
>>
>> This is the only production which uses known-cmavo-SA,
>> known-cmavo-pre, and CMAVO-pre. I'm trying to determine how these
>> productions interact, but these rules intersect the morphology
>> interface in camxes, and I would appreciate help understanding
>> them.
>
> Good luck. -_-
>
> The *goal* is to match
> http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Magic+Words , IIRC.
> It's really complicated.
>
> The design there is to match any word, but also to slurp SA clauses.
> SA, as used there, only affects cmavo; [selma'o] ... SA [same
> selma'o] == one cmavo of that selma'o.
That was your original version, but then you changed it. Now SA does
something different, it doesn't just look at the selma'o of the
following word, but at a whole following structure. Either way it's a
big mess. We really should think seriously about SA at some point, and
either make something sensible with it or just drop it. It's no wonder
that anyone will be confused by rules that have to do with SA because
they were written for one version and then sort of adapted to
something else. I believe Alan is correct that the current
any-word-SA-handling rule contains unnecessary fluff for the current
version.
mu'o mi'e xorxes
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