WikiDiscuss

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:07:36AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> --- Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:42:51AM -0800, wikidiscuss@lojban.org
> > wrote:
> > > I would have SA simply ignore free modifiers and indicators.
> >
> > By which you mean that it ignores them looking forward for
> > things to match?
>
> That's what I had in mind, yes.
>
> > mi viska le bruna be la djan sa sei mi nelci se'u le broda
> >
> > ==
> >
> > mi viska le bruna be le broda
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Seems that if it ignores them in searching forward for things to
> > match is equivalent to erasing them.
>
> I was thinking: {mi viska le bruna be sei mi nelci se'u le broda}

I don't like that so much.

For one thing, it's confusing for the listener, for another, it'll
be hell on the parser (infinite lookahead with complex matching for
every SA it encounters).

Actually, it only needs to look ahead through free* and indicators.
That's not *too* bad.

What do other people think?

Would the above piss you off as a listener?

I want to point out that the main *benefit* to this approach is
things like "mi nelca la broda sa ko'a", i.e. replacement with
wholly different cmavo types that match the same structure.

-Robin