Re: [lojban] any-word-SA-handling clarification

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

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:14:01PM -0500, Luke Bergen wrote:
> With all this talk of {sa}, what about {ra}?  It seems like it
> would have a similar set of issues.

No, not at all.  With {sa} you have to be able to emit arbitrary
bullshit and at the end it's still grammatical.  At the *parser*
level.  {ra} issues are purely semantic; how to parse it is not in
question.

> ta'onai when I see {sa} I usually assume something like "cut all
> the words back to the last {.i}".  Is coding something like that
> in PEG possible?

Trivial.  That would be a *fantastic* version of {sa} from a parsing
perspective.  Sooooo much better than the current version.

-Robin

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