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Posted by rlpowell on Tue 21 of Dec, 2004 00:27 GMT posts: 14214

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:33:34PM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> > This:
> >
> > cmavo <- !cmene !gismu !lujvo !fuhivla consonant? vowels
> > &(spaces / consonant)
> >
> > can't work, because at least one of those ! productions has
> > stuff out front that calls cmavo (or !cmavo, or whatever). One
> > of them I've found, which is the lujvo !tosmabru test, but
> > there's at least one other.
>
> fuhivla-head started with &cmavo
>
> > Having cmavo call cmavo to match cmavo is left recursion, and is
> > bad.
>
> Changed to:
>
> cmavo <- !cmene !gismu !lujvo !fuhivla cmavo-form
>
> cmavo-form <- consonant? vowels &(spaces / consonant)
>
> lujvo and fuhivla now use cmavo-form.

A couple more places needed to use cmavo-form, but it seems to work
now.

-Robin