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NAME

       nowhere - a tree parser generator for Standard ML

SYNOPSIS

       nowhere file

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the nowhere command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       The nowhere program is a simple source to source translation tool that expands out case expressions  with
       conditional patterns.

       Conditional patterns use the "where" keyword.  For example:

        case l of
          [x,y,z] where x=1 => 1
        | _ => 2

       means the same as:

        case l of
          [1,y,z] => 1
        | _ => 2

       Currently, the input file must be of the following form:

        local
          <definitions>
        in
          <body>
        end
          <definitions>

       should  include  all  datatypes  definitions  that  are  used inside the body.  It is only for the tool's
       benefit and does not appear in the output.  Only body appears at the output.  You  can  use  the  special
       declaration

            include "filename"

       to import extra definitions.

       The tool translates all case expressions with guards into the appropriate code.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/nowhere/README

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Aaron Read <amread@nyx.net>. for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
       used by others)

                                                  July 21, 2004                                       nowhere(1)