Just to clarify, the problem is that marpa_v_arg_0 returns -1, when the 
documentation explicitly specifies that it should never do so.

On Monday, 15 September 2014 12:30:28 UTC+1, Dylan Ede wrote:
>
> I have just bumped into a situation where the valuator always produces a 
> rule step that has arguments beginning from -1 for a particular rule. The 
> rule is a sequence of 5 symbols, and is also the start rule. The first two 
> are the same terminal symbol. marpa_v_arg_0 gives -1. marpa_v_arg_n gives 
> 3. When this rule step is reached, there are only 4 items on the stack, 
> corresponding to the last 4 symbols in the rule. According to the libmarpa 
> documentation, marpa_v_arg_0 never fails, and returns a valid stack 
> position. -1 is not a valid stack position, so what's gone wrong? This 
> problem only occurs when the first two symbols are a particular symbol. Is 
> there something I must have done wrong with this symbol?
>
> Other than this problem, I must say that libmarpa is a quite brilliant 
> library for parsing.
>

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