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



2014-10-01 15:23 GMT+04:00 v4hn <me@v4hn.de>:
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.
Exactly, we should add one. Who will do it? 
If no one then it's of absolutely no use and should return to the book when it gets that explanation. Otherwise it's still not Complete.


v4hn

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