Re: Document on Ambiguity

Thanks for your comments. I'm not sure whether this document is a living 
one, or just to kick off a discussion, but I will bear your remarks in mind 
should I update it.


Best wishes,


Steven

On Tuesday 20 January 2026 13:34:11 (+01:00), Graydon Saunders wrote:


  > _It is a potential source of technical debt._


For a document otherwise written in (impressively!) simple language, 
hauling in "technical debt", a term with a broad variety of unrecognized 
variation in meaning, does not seem desirable.


I perceive ambiguity as arising from some combination of "you don't know 
what you want your grammar to do" and "you don't know how to make a grammar 
that does what you want" (which has subcases of "a grammar can't do that" 
and "learn more about grammar mechanisms") and it might be useful to make 
all of these explicit in the text.


On Tue, Jan 20, 2026, at 07:06, Steven Pemberton wrote:
I had an action to produce a document addressing ambiguity, and here it is.


Steven


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ambiguity.html