BPFK Section: lerfu Forming cmavo
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:51:05AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
>
> --- Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> > 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).
> >
> > 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.
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'.
> The reinsertion occurs after all parsing is done, for the benefit of
> the human.
In which case, there definately isn't going to be anything there for a
second 'bu' to attach to.
-Robin