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Re: [lojban] CLL: I'd like to drop the formal grammars.



On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 12:59:10AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> In the age of ubiquitous internet, I feel that the entire Formal
> Grammars chapter simply doesn't belong in a printed book.
> 
> Does anyone disagree?

Yes. Please leave it in. The book is called _C_LL and the formal
grammar is _definitely_ part of the language. I will look at it
if I'm interested in a specific parse tree or the grammar itself and I don't
have a computer with me (yes, this really does happen, even nowadays,
and it's always going to happen for as long as computers are not implanted)

I also do hope the YACC grammar will be replaced by a PEG grammar
in the next version.

If people feel really uncomfortable because there is no explanation
of the syntax of the grammar description, then we should _add_ one
instead of removing the grammar.


v4hn

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