From rpc@digitalkingdom.org Sun May 12 14:56:06 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: richard@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 12 May 2002 21:56:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 67694 invoked from network); 12 May 2002 21:56:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 May 2002 21:56:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO scrabble.freeuk.net) (212.126.144.6) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 May 2002 21:56:05 -0000 Received: from du-010-0218.freeuk.com ([212.126.153.218] helo=rrbcurnow.freeuk.com) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1771K0-0003ob-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Sun, 12 May 2002 22:56:04 +0100 Received: from richard by rrbcurnow.freeuk.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 1771EN-00004Y-00; Sun, 12 May 2002 22:50:15 +0100 Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:50:15 +0100 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: ka'enai (was Re: [lojban] cmavo compounds) Message-ID: <20020512225015.A242@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20020425060432.GB3433@twcny.rr.com> <20020508005042.GU1993@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020508005042.GU1993@digitalkingdom.org>; from rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org on Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:50:42PM -0700 X-Mailer: mutt-1.2.5.1i (Linux 2.2.19 i486) Sender: Richard Curnow From: Richard Curnow X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=85274821 X-Yahoo-Profile: richard_p_curnow I've just tried a quick experiment on the bison input file for jbofihe. I could insert an optional NAI after CAhA without introducing any extra shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts at all. So the answer to Robin's question seems to be "yes" (unless there are some subtleties in the tense pre-parsing that I've overlooked). On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:50:42PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:04:32AM -0400, Rob Speer wrote: > > The arbitrarily ungrammatical "ka'enai" is 19th, having been used 34 > > times, many of which were in written text and not IRC. This shows > > quite clearly, I think, that on this point the grammar is out of date > > with the language. > > I've been wondering: > > Is the grammar capable of handling ka'enai and such without breaking its > LR(1)-ness? > -- Richard. ------------------+------------------------------------ Richard P. Curnow | Free software user, author & zealot Weston-super-Mare | a'o kansa ke skami se fanva United Kingdom | http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/