---
name: "nowhere"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "nowhere"
version: "110.79-8"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nowhere"
---

# nowhere(1)

a tree parser generator for Standard ML

## NAME

nowhere - a tree parser generator for Standard ML

## SYNOPSIS

**nowhere** *file*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **nowhere** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

The **nowhere** program is a simple source to source translation tool that expands out case expressions with conditional patterns.

Conditional patterns use the "where" keyword.  For example:

 case l of\
    \[x,y,z\] where x=1 =\> 1\
  \| \_ =\> 2

means the same as:

 case l of\
    \[1,y,z\] =\> 1\
  \| \_ =\> 2

Currently, the input file must be of the following form:

 local\
    \<definitions\>\
  in\
    \<body\>\
  end\
    \<definitions\>

should include all datatypes definitions that are used inside the *body*. It is only for the tool's benefit and does not appear in the output. Only *body* appears at the output.  You can use the special declaration

     include "filename"

to import extra definitions.

The tool translates all case expressions with guards into the appropriate code.

## SEE ALSO

*/usr/share/doc/nowhere/README*\

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Aaron Read \<amread@nyx.net\>. for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others)