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* The following modules are no longer used and have been removed completely: GF.Compile.Compute.ConcreteLazy GF.Compile.Compute.ConcreteStrict GF.Compile.Refresh * The STM monad has been commented out. It was only used in GF.Compile.SubExpOpt, where could be replaced with a plain State monad, since no error handling was needed. One of the functions was hardwired to the Err monad, but did in fact not use error handling, so it was turned into a pure function. * The function errVal has been renamed to fromErr (since it is analogous to fromMaybe). * Replaced 'fail' with 'raise' and 'return ()' with 'done' in a few places. * Some additional old code that was already commented out has been removed.
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.)