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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="../webs.html">&#9733;</a></li><li><b>words </b></li></ul>
<p class="purpose">A library of code for reading natural language into a stream of words.</p>
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<p><a name="1"></a><spon class="chaptertitle">Chapter 1: Setting Up</span></p>
<p><span class="purpose">Building on the foundation module.</span></p>
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<p><a href="1-wm.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Words Module</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">Setting up the use of this module.</span></p>
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<p><a name="2"></a><spon class="chaptertitle">Chapter 2: Words in Isolation</span></p>
<p><span class="purpose">Recognising different words, and storing phrases made of them.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-vcb.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Vocabulary</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">To classify the words in the lexical stream, where two different words are considered equivalent if they are unquoted and have the same text, taken case insensitively.</span></p>
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<p><a href="2-wa.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Word Assemblages</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">To manage arbitrary assemblies of vocabulary, if a little slowly.</span></p>
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<p><a name="3"></a><spon class="chaptertitle">Chapter 3: Words in Sequence</span></p>
<p><span class="purpose">Reading in arbitrary text and breaking it into a numbered sequence of words.</span></p>
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<p><a href="3-lxr.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Lexer</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">To break down a stream of characters into a numbered sequence of words, literal strings and literal I6 inclusions, removing comments and unnecessary whitespace.</span></p>
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<p><a href="3-wrd.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Wordings</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">To manage contiguous word ranges.</span></p>
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<p><a href="3-tff.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Text From Files</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">This is where source text is read in, whether from extension files or from the main source text file, and fed into the lexer.</span></p>
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<p><a href="3-fds.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Feeds</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">Feeds are conduits for arbitrary text to flow into the lexer, and to be converted into wordings.</span></p>
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<p><a href="3-idn.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Identifiers</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">To represent snippets of natural language in identifier form, which a typical C-like compiler would accept.</span></p>
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<p><a name="4"></a><spon class="chaptertitle">Chapter 4: Parsing</span></p>
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<p><a href="4-nw.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Numbered Words</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">Some utilities for handling single words referred to by number.</span></p>
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<p><a href="4-prf.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Preform</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">To read in structural definitions of natural language written in a meta-language called Preform.</span></p>
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<p><a href="4-bn.html"><spon class="sectiontitle">Basic Nonterminals</span></a> -
<span class="purpose">A handful of bare minimum Preform syntax.</span></p>
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