WikiDiscuss

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:57:43PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> wikidiscuss@lojban.org scripsit:
> > Re: BPFK Section: Quotations Also in C16 S19, we have:
> >
> > ZOI cmavo use the following word as a delimiting word, no matter
> > what it is, but using "le'u" may create difficulties.
>
> > Umm, what kind of problems? Are these problems a result of the
> > parsing methodology, or of the definition of Lojban in the CLL?
>
> If I say "zoi le'u the bogus example le'u", and you try to quote
> me with "la djan cusku lo'u zoi le'u the bogus example le'u", your
> lo'u quote terminates prematurely.

Hmmm.

That wouldn't work anyways, though; it would need to be:

"la djan cusku lo'u zoi le'u the bogus example le'u le'u"

(note the two le'u at the end).

This doesn't strike me as a problem, if zoi are supposed to work
inside lo'u ... le'u.

Which leads to the next question: *are* zoi quotes legal inside
lo'u...le'u? I'm pretty sure that the stuff in C16 S19 says that
it's *not*, because lo'u quotes all the following Lojban words,
including zoi, but can't take non-Lojban words. So the zoi gets
eaten, and then there's a bunch of crap that doesn't parse:

mi cusku lo'u zoi zoi AAck! zoi le'u

My parser actually has no problems with this, and I'm pretty sure
that's a bug. If zoi quotes work in lo'u...le'u, then your example
is no problem, because it's just nesting.

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