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Subject: [lojban] Re: odd parse
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:24:31PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I made a variant of a previous tonguetwister, {la bab noi babzba
> ba zbasu lo jbazbabu lo babjba}, and ran it through jbofi'e. I
> expected it to throw it out because of the missing terminator, but
> it apparently parsed it as {la bab., noi babzba ba, zbasu lo
> jbazbabu lo babjba}. Is that correct?

I would have expected {la bab., noi babzba, ba zbasu lo
jbazbabu lo babjba}, but then LALR(1) can't do that. Certainly the
terminator isn't needed, though; once the brivla of the noi clause
has been seen, what can come next is very limited.

-Robin

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