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This prevents HUGE space leak and makes compiling a PGF a LOT faster For example, an application grammar moved from taking over 50GB of ram and taking 5 minutes (most of which is spent on garbage colelction) to taking 1.2 seconds and using 42mb of memory The price we pay is that the "variable #n is out of scope" error is now lazy and will happen when we try to evaluate the term instead of happening when the function returns and allowing the caller to chose how to handle the error. I don't think this should matter in practice, since it's very rare; at least Inari has never encountered it.
Grammatical Framework (GF)
The Grammatical Framework 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
The simplest way of installing GF from source is with the command:
cabal install
or:
stack install
For more information, including links to precompiled binaries, see the download page.
About this repository
On 2018-07-25, the monolithic GF repository was split in two:
The former repository is now archived and no longer updated. The split was performed using this script and the output of that script is here.