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This speeds up the compilation of PhrasebookFin.pgf by 12%, mosly by speeding up calls to lookupModule in calls from lookupParamValues, in calls from allParamValues. The invariant "modules are stored in dependency order" is no longer respected! But the type MGrammar is now abstract, making it easier to maintain this or other invariants in the future.
DESCRIPTION
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation
* parsing
* translation
* type checking
* computation
* paraphrasing
* random generation
* syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic
properties of expressions)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See doc/gf-developers.html for installation instructions.