Isn't the whole point of a precedence rule to provide a disambiguition?

On Friday, 2 September 2016, Jeffrey Kegler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If you use the rewrite option, it remains possible to write a precedenced
> statement that is inherently ambiguous.  Rewriting is to prevent the
> *implementation* of precedenced rules from *introducing* new ambiguities
> not actually in the precedenced rule itself.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:30 PM, <[email protected]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
>
>> The rewrite approach seems to work great for recursive rules, but it
>> doesn't do anything for non-recursive rules.  Running the following gives
>> me an ambiguous parse.  Since opt1a is a higher priority, I expect to see
>> two productions of opt1a with no ambiguity.  Am I expecting too much here?
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>>
>>     use strict;
>>     use Marpa::R2;
>>     use Data::Dumper;
>>
>>     my $grammar = "
>>     options ::= option*
>>     option  ::= opt1a || opt2a
>>     opt1a   ::= 'a'
>>     opt2a   ::= 'a' 'a'
>>
>>     :discard ~ whitespace
>>     whitespace ~ [\\s]+
>>     ";
>>
>>     my $grammar = Marpa::R2::Scanless::G->new( { source => \$grammar } );
>>     my $input = 'a a';
>>     my $value_ref = $grammar->parse( \$input );
>>
>>     my $value = ${$value_ref};
>>     print "Output:\n".Dumper($value);
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 8:55:21 PM UTC-6, Jeffrey Kegler wrote:
>>>
>>> I've remembered a major reason for preferring the rewrite approach.  If
>>> you parse then rank, you're using ambiguous parsing -- Marpa is cool with
>>> that, but it is not necessarily as fast as an unambiguous parse.  If the
>>> expression is of size X the parse could be as bad as O(X^3) and that can
>>> make a difference if you have a lot of long expressions.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
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