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</script></head><body><div id="package-header"><ul class="links" id="page-menu"><li><a href="src/English.html">Source</a></li><li><a href="index.html">Contents</a></li><li><a href="doc-index.html">Index</a></li></ul><p class="caption">darcs-2.8.3: a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system</p></div><div id="content"><div id="module-header"><table class="info"><tr><th>Portability</th><td>portable</td></tr><tr><th>Stability</th><td>experimental</td></tr><tr><th>Maintainer</th><td>darcs-devel@darcs.net</td></tr><tr><th>Safe Haskell</th><td>Safe-Infered</td></tr></table><p class="caption">English</p></div><div id="description"><p class="caption">Description</p><div class="doc"><p>This modules provides rudimentary natural language generation
(NLG) utilities. That is, generating natural language from a
machine representation. Initially, only English is supported at
all. Representations are implemented for:
</p><ul><li> countable nouns (plurality); and
* lists of clauses (foo, bar and/or baz).
</li></ul></div></div><div id="synopsis"><p id="control.syn" class="caption expander" onclick="toggleSection('syn')">Synopsis</p><ul id="section.syn" class="hide" onclick="toggleSection('syn')"><li class="src short"><a href="#v:englishNum">englishNum</a> :: <a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> n => <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-Int.html#t:Int">Int</a> -> n -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Text-Show.html#t:ShowS">ShowS</a></li><li class="src short"><span class="keyword">class</span> <a href="#t:Countable">Countable</a> a <span class="keyword">where</span><ul class="subs"><li><a href="#v:plural">plural</a> :: a -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Text-Show.html#t:ShowS">ShowS</a></li><li><a href="#v:singular">singular</a> :: a -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Text-Show.html#t:ShowS">ShowS</a></li></ul></li><li class="src short"><span class="keyword">newtype</span> <a href="#t:Noun">Noun</a> = <a href="#v:Noun">Noun</a> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a></li><li class="src short"><span class="keyword">data</span> <a href="#t:Pronoun">Pronoun</a> = <a href="#v:It">It</a></li><li class="src short"><span class="keyword">data</span> <a href="#t:This">This</a> = <a href="#v:This">This</a> <a href="English.html#t:Noun">Noun</a></li><li class="src short"><a href="#v:andClauses">andClauses</a>, <a href="#v:orClauses">orClauses</a> :: [<a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a>] -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a></li><li class="src short"><a href="#v:intersperseLast">intersperseLast</a> :: <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a> -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a> -> [<a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a>] -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a></li><li class="src short"><a href="#v:presentParticiple">presentParticiple</a> :: <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a> -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a></li></ul></div><div id="interface"><h1>Documentation</h1><div class="top"><p class="src"><a name="v:englishNum" class="def">englishNum</a> :: <a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> n => <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-Int.html#t:Int">Int</a> -> n -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Text-Show.html#t:ShowS">ShowS</a><a href="src/English.html#englishNum" class="link">Source</a></p><div class="doc"><pre> englishNum 0 (Noun "watch") "" == "watches"
englishNum 1 (Noun "watch") "" == "watch"
englishNum 2 (Noun "watch") "" == "watches"
</pre></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><span class="keyword">class</span> <a name="t:Countable" class="def">Countable</a> a <span class="keyword">where</span><a href="src/English.html#Countable" class="link">Source</a></p><div class="doc"><p>Things that have a plural and singular spelling
</p></div><div class="subs methods"><p class="caption">Methods</p><p class="src"><a name="v:plural" class="def">plural</a> :: a -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Text-Show.html#t:ShowS">ShowS</a><a href="src/English.html#plural" class="link">Source</a></p><p class="src"><a name="v:singular" class="def">singular</a> :: a -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Text-Show.html#t:ShowS">ShowS</a><a href="src/English.html#singular" class="link">Source</a></p></div><div class="subs instances"><p id="control.i:Countable" class="caption collapser" onclick="toggleSection('i:Countable')">Instances</p><div id="section.i:Countable" class="show"><table><tr><td class="src"><a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> <a href="English.html#t:This">This</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr><tr><td class="src"><a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> <a href="English.html#t:Pronoun">Pronoun</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr><tr><td class="src"><a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> <a href="English.html#t:Noun">Noun</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><span class="keyword">newtype</span> <a name="t:Noun" class="def">Noun</a> <a href="src/English.html#Noun" class="link">Source</a></p><div class="doc"><p>This only distinguishes between nouns with a final -ch,
and nouns which do not.
More irregular nouns will just need to have their own type
</p><pre> plural (Noun "batch") "" == "batches"
plural (Noun "bat") "" == "bats"
plural (Noun "mouse") "" == "mouses" -- :-(
</pre></div><div class="subs constructors"><p class="caption">Constructors</p><table><tr><td class="src"><a name="v:Noun" class="def">Noun</a> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div><div class="subs instances"><p id="control.i:Noun" class="caption collapser" onclick="toggleSection('i:Noun')">Instances</p><div id="section.i:Noun" class="show"><table><tr><td class="src"><a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> <a href="English.html#t:Noun">Noun</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><span class="keyword">data</span> <a name="t:Pronoun" class="def">Pronoun</a> <a href="src/English.html#Pronoun" class="link">Source</a></p><div class="subs constructors"><p class="caption">Constructors</p><table><tr><td class="src"><a name="v:It" class="def">It</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div><div class="subs instances"><p id="control.i:Pronoun" class="caption collapser" onclick="toggleSection('i:Pronoun')">Instances</p><div id="section.i:Pronoun" class="show"><table><tr><td class="src"><a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> <a href="English.html#t:Pronoun">Pronoun</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><span class="keyword">data</span> <a name="t:This" class="def">This</a> <a href="src/English.html#This" class="link">Source</a></p><div class="doc"><pre> singular This (Noun "batch") "" == "this batch"
plural This (Noun "batch") "" == "these batches"
</pre></div><div class="subs constructors"><p class="caption">Constructors</p><table><tr><td class="src"><a name="v:This" class="def">This</a> <a href="English.html#t:Noun">Noun</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div><div class="subs instances"><p id="control.i:This" class="caption collapser" onclick="toggleSection('i:This')">Instances</p><div id="section.i:This" class="show"><table><tr><td class="src"><a href="English.html#t:Countable">Countable</a> <a href="English.html#t:This">This</a></td><td class="doc empty"> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><a name="v:andClauses" class="def">andClauses</a>, <a name="v:orClauses" class="def">orClauses</a> :: [<a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a>] -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a><a href="src/English.html#andClauses" class="link">Source</a></p><div class="doc"><p>Given a list of things, combine them thusly:
</p><pre> orClauses ["foo", "bar", "baz"] == "foo, bar or baz"
</pre></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><a name="v:intersperseLast" class="def">intersperseLast</a> :: <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a> -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a> -> [<a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a>] -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a><a href="src/English.html#intersperseLast" class="link">Source</a></p><div class="doc"><p>As <code>intersperse</code>, with a different separator for the last
| interspersal.
</p></div></div><div class="top"><p class="src"><a name="v:presentParticiple" class="def">presentParticiple</a> :: <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a> -> <a href="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.5.0.0/Data-String.html#t:String">String</a><a href="src/English.html#presentParticiple" class="link">Source</a></p></div></div></div><div id="footer"><p>Produced by <a href="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/">Haddock</a> version 2.10.0</p></div></body></html>
