forked from GitHub/gf-core
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The API in the C runtime as well as in the Haskell, Python and Java binding is changed. Now instead of adding the literal callbacks to the concrete syntax you need to supply them every time when you need to parse. The main reason is: - referentially transparent API for Haskell - when we start using memory mapped files we will not be allowed to change anything in the grammar data structures. At that point the old API would be impossible to use.
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.)