REWRITER(1)
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).