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BPFK Section: lerfu Forming cmavo

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> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:28:00AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> >
> > What's the problem?
>
> The section heading:
>
> In a new pass, perform the following absorptions (absorption means
> that the token is removed from the grammar for processing in
> following steps, and optionally reinserted, grouped with the
> absorbing token after parsing is completed).
>
> I'm assuming there that 'grammar' is intended to say 'text'.

That would make more sense.

> As described, the BY absorbtion is only re-inserted *after* parsing (by
> which I assume that it means "the current step of parsing", not "parsing
> as a whole", but who the hell knows?).

AS I understand it, the token that is absorbed (and thus removed) is
the BU token, not the one that gets relabeled. The reinsertion occurs
after all parsing is done, for the benefit of the human.

mi'e xorxes


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