bionic (1) rewriter.1.gz

NAME

       rewriter - demodulate terms

SYNOPSIS

       rewriter <demodulators-file> < <terms-file> > <rewritten-terms-file>

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the rewriter command.

       Rewrite  a stream of terms with a list of demodulators. The demodulators are used left-to-right as given,
       and they are not checked for termination.

SYNTAX

       The file of demodulators contains optional commands then a list of demodulators.   The  commands  can  be
       used to declare infix operations and associativity/commutativity.  Example file of demodulators:

           op(400, infix, ^).
           op(400, infix, v).
           assoc_comm(^).
           assoc_comm(v).
           formulas(demodulators).
           x ^ x = x.
           x ^ (x v y) = x.
           x v x = x.
           x v (x ^ y) = x.
           end_of_list.

SEE ALSO

       prover9(1), mace4(1).
       Full  documentation  for  rewriter  is  found  in  the prover9 manual, available on Debian systems in the
       prover9-doc package at /usr/share/doc/prover9-doc/manual/index.html.

AUTHOR

       rewriter was written by William McCune <mccune@cs.unm.edu>

       This manual page was written by Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be
       used by others).

                                                January 20, 2007                                     REWRITER(1)