BPFK Section: lerfu Forming cmavo
Robin Lee Powell scripsit:
> That seems unlikely, as the text above refers to the 'absorbing token'
> as well as the token that is absorbed. In 'mi bu', it seems very
> strange to refer to 'mi' as the 'absorbing token'.
No, "mi" absorbs "bu" and is translated into a novel token of selma'o BY.
Internally, the objects that are used as tokens can have child tokens attached;
in this case, the original "mi" and "bu" appear there.
This same mechanism is used for backtracking with the 700's rules: if the
lexrule?.c module fails, the child tokens are pushed back on the input and
the parent tokens are recycled.
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