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Re: [jboske] Re: [WikiDiscuss] Re: [WikiChanges] BPFK Section: lerfu Forming cmavo



On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> Arnt Richard Johansen scripsit:
>
> > It appears to be a quote. The preparser rules say that "zo" casts the
> > following token into any_word_698. We then have "ZO any_word_698 BU". Then
> > we have a rule that says that BU is absorbed into the previous token,
> > making it a BY. We then end up with "ZO BY", which is a quotation.
>
> Agreed, but what it really is is a useless construct, since there is
> no saying what letteral is meant by any_word_698 bu.
> It is what my Latin teacher used to call a wart on the face of the earth.

If that is the case, the parser you released yesterday has a bug. It
accepts "zo by", but barfs on "zo a bu".

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