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



so, being the benevolent dictator for life of the bpfk that you are, can you just define it that way?  From what I'm hearing, it sounds like it doesn't have a very firm definition as it is now.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
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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