@Aristotle, thanks again. As far as my sentence being English or not, there a French saying: ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas français, “that which is not clear is not French”. And my sentence was certainly no model of clarity.
I decided that even those who understood me would appreciate better writing, so I rewrote that sentence in the original post <http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/individual/2014/11/ll.html> . On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi coughlin.jake, > > * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2014-11-21 21:10]: > > paragraph 12 isn't english: > > > > Simplistically, Knuth's suggestion was, instead of fully deciding the > > parse at every location, to create what I will call "subparses" -- > > pieces that embody partial decisions about the parse, which are > > intended to be assembled later into a larger subparses, and > > eventually into a full parse tree. > > > > you lead us to believe you're going to tell us what Knuth's suggestion > > is, but unfortunately, you travel down a few sidestreets and never > > arrive. > > it reads perfectly grammatical to me, but maybe to a reader not already > familiar with bottom-up parsing it is not clear at which point Jeffrey > merges from the sidestreet back onto the main road. > > Let me try to copy-edit a little: > > Simplistically, Knuth's suggestion was to create what I will call > "subparses": instead of fully deciding the parse at every location, > the parser should accumulate pieces that embody partial decisions > about the parse, which are intended to be assembled into larger > subparses later, repeatedly, culminating in a full parse tree. > > Does this help? > > Regards, > -- > Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "marpa parser" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
