ml-lex(1)

💖 ml-lex — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for ml-lex, straight outta the General Commands Manual (section 1, iykyk). it's a parser generator for ML and honestly? iconic. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ml-lex — a parser generator for ML 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ml-lex file.lex

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one command, one file, go off 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk — this page only documents the ml-lex command briefly, like a lil summary bestie. it was written for the Debian distribution because the original program literally does not have a manual page. not me having to write the docs myself 😭

so here's the tea: the ml-lex proogram (yes, that's how it's spelled in the original, we're keeping it, no cap 🫶) generates a lexical analyzer from the specification sitting in file.lex, and it produces the file file.lex.sml. that's the output, periodt.

lowkey obsessed with how it takes your file.lex and hands you back a .sml file like a lil gift 🎁

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• sml(1)
• ml-yacc(1)
• ml-makedepend(1)
• ml-build(1)

these programs are documented fully by A lexical analyzer generator for Standard ML, by Andrew W. Appel, James S. Mattson, and David R. Tarditi — and you can find that whole thing at:

/usr/share/doc/smlnj-doc/lexgen.pdf.gz

go read it, it's giving "required reading for the girlies who write compilers" 📚✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Aaron Matthew Read <amread@nyx.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but bestie, it may be used by others too, we don't gatekeep 💖

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🎀 the cute sign-off 🎀

and that's the whole page fr fr!! this one came from the General Commands Manual source, dated October 25, 2002 — a true vintage moment, and it ATE. mwah 💋

now go run ml-lex file.lex and slay, bestie 🦋💅