From cowan@ccil.org Tue May 06 20:23:11 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 7 May 2003 03:23:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 89489 invoked from network); 7 May 2003 03:23:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 May 2003 03:23:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 May 2003 03:23:05 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DFWL-0006pq-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 23:23:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 23:23:05 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long) Message-ID: <20030507032305.GB24871@ccil.org> References: <20030506003536.GC27938@ccil.org> <5.2.0.9.0.20030506074032.0348f2e0@pop.east.cox.net> <20030507024957.GA1380@panda.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030507024957.GA1380@panda.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan tk1@despammed.com scripsit: > Apologies for hijacking this thread, but upon hearing about this use of the > "error" token, I am starting to feel somewhat uncomfortable. Specifically, I > fear that using such strange hacks will make it harder to explain (and > grasp) intuitively when certain words can be elided, without referring to a > specific 1970's parsing technology. Yacc error handling is used to supply elidable terminators. "cu" is optional in the grammar, not supplied by error recovery (although using it does change which terminators may be elided, of course). -- I am expressing my opinion. When my John Cowan honorable and gallant friend is called, jcowan@reutershealth.com he will express his opinion. This is http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the process which we call Debate. --Winston Churchill From cowan@ccil.org Tue May 06 20:23:11 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_6); 7 May 2003 03:23:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 89489 invoked from network); 7 May 2003 03:23:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 May 2003 03:23:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 May 2003 03:23:05 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DFWL-0006pq-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 23:23:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 23:23:05 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Some ideas/questions (long) Message-ID: <20030507032305.GB24871@ccil.org> References: <20030506003536.GC27938@ccil.org> <5.2.0.9.0.20030506074032.0348f2e0@pop.east.cox.net> <20030507024957.GA1380@panda.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030507024957.GA1380@panda.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan tk1@despammed.com scripsit: > Apologies for hijacking this thread, but upon hearing about this use of the > "error" token, I am starting to feel somewhat uncomfortable. Specifically, I > fear that using such strange hacks will make it harder to explain (and > grasp) intuitively when certain words can be elided, without referring to a > specific 1970's parsing technology. Yacc error handling is used to supply elidable terminators. "cu" is optional in the grammar, not supplied by error recovery (although using it does change which terminators may be elided, of course). -- I am expressing my opinion. When my John Cowan honorable and gallant friend is called, jcowan@reutershealth.com he will express his opinion. This is http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the process which we call Debate. --Winston Churchill