mllex-polyml(1)

💖 mllex-polyml(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for mllex-polyml — it's giving legendary tool, it's giving lexer generator, and honestly? you're gonna eat this up ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

mllex-polyml — lexical analyzer for Stardard ML 🦋

(yes, "Stardard" — that's literally how it's written, no cap, we don't fix it, we respect it 💅)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mllex-polyml file.lex

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea 🍓 — mllex-polyml is a Poly/ML port of the ML-Lex lexical analyzer for Standard ML. It's the same iconic energy, just rehomed into Poly/ML, and she's thriving.

Her syntax is similar to Lex — like, if you know Lex you're basically already fluent, iykyk — but the twist is she produces an ML program instead of a C program. Not a C program. An ML program. different vibes entirely, and that's the whole point 😌

and the performance?? ML-Lex produces a program that runs very efficiently. 🔥 like, typically the program will be as fast or even faster than a hand-coded lexer implemented in Standard ML. hand-coded. by a whole human. and she's still keeping up or beating it. main character energy fr fr 👑

if you want the complete description — like the whole deep dive, not just the group-chat summary — go read the included plaintext and PDF documentation found under /usr/share/doc/mllex-polyml 📚✨

so yeah. that's the whole page. short, sweet, powerful. go write a lexer, bestie 🫶

this was mllex-polyml(1), part of the General Commands Manual, dated 19 May 2025 — and that's a wrap, mwah 💖🎀🦋