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* -new-comp (the new partial evaluator) is now chosen by default when you run cabal install (or cabal configure). To revert to using the old partial evaluator by default, use "cabal install -f-new-comp" (or "cabal configure -f-new-comp"). * Regardless of the configured default, you can choose which partial evaluator to use when you invoke gf by using the -new-comp or -old-comp command line option. * The cc command in the GF shell uses the chosen partial evaluator by default, but you can override this by using "cc -new" or "cc -old". The plan is that these flags will be romeved in a future version.
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 download/index.html for installation instructions.
(More details can be found in doc/gf-developers.html.)