Are you referring to metamath-knife? I can't find relevant code dealing 
with definitions in the source.

在2022年11月14日星期一 UTC+1 01:17:39<[email protected]> 写道:

> No, there are more rules than just that. I'm sure I've posted about this 
> on the group before but the best link I can find at the moment is 
> https://groups.google.com/g/metamath/c/HdfvWF2WhBE/m/bqL0Q7E_BQAJ . The 
> "definition" $j command is rarely used; it is only there to help parse a 
> definitional axiom as preparation for running the actual definition check. 
> Most of the time, the structure of the definition is manifest, because it 
> is an equality of some kind (like `<->`) with the defined symbol on the 
> left and the body of the definition on the right. Once these parts are 
> identified, it is possible to check the definition rules; in your example 
> the "definition" ~ancom would be rejected because the defined symbol `/\` 
> occurs in the definition body.
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 5:54 PM Zheng Fan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In the document on the $j comments, it says that "The definition should 
>> have a top level equality declared by the <code>equality</code> command 
>> with the definition on the right hand side," except for df-bi. Is this 
>> condition sufficient for a definition? For example, we have the theorem
>>
>> ancom $p |- ( ( ph /\ ps ) <-> ( ps /\ ph ) ) $= ... $.
>>
>> It also has a top level equality (<->) for wff, but it is not a 
>> definition for /\.
>>
>> 在2022年11月13日星期日 UTC+1 02:44:32<[email protected]> 写道:
>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 7:10 PM Zheng Fan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't paid a lot of attention to the $j comments. I was under the 
>>>> impression from the official specs that comments are mostly ignored. 
>>>> Anyway, is there any specs about the meaning of the $j comments? And which 
>>>> part of the program (if any) is responsible for parsing the $j comments? 
>>>> And what does unambiguous 'klr 5' mean? 
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's not yet up on the website (cc: David), but 
>>> https://github.com/metamath/set.mm/blob/develop/j-commands.html has 
>>> some documentation on the meaning of all the $j commands. The purpose of 
>>> the commands is to make the various "conventions" around metamath database 
>>> naming and interpretation of axioms more formalized and machine-checkable, 
>>> so it is particularly of interest to metamath-knife. The $j commands are 
>>> ignored by metamath verifiers, but it still has relevant information for 
>>> tools that want to do more than simply verify the database; in particular 
>>> it is relevant for parsing the statements and identifying definitions (as 
>>> distinct from axioms) and verifying conservativity.
>>>
>>> In metamath-knife, the case that handles parsing $t and $j commands is:
>>>   
>>> https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/metamath-knife/blob/614c3527fe79206e12eaa633d4c7561736cbb9fd/src/parser.rs#L747-L758
>>> which defers to CommandIter which does the low level parsing. (Parsing 
>>> $t and $j commands is a bit more difficult than the rest of it since it has 
>>> more C-like lexing rules, which allow you to omit spaces before `;` and 
>>> such.) The parsing of $t comments is also described in the Metamath book, 
>>> and $j commands use the same parser.
>>> .
>>> After parsing the broad structure of the $j command, the result is 
>>> stashed in Segment.j_commands, and further interpretation is done on the 
>>> fly as required by individual analysis passes. The most important $j 
>>> command which is read by almost every parser that makes an attempt to read 
>>> $j commands at all is "syntax"; this tells you the information that you 
>>> were asking about - that theorems start with "|-" and "wff" is the typecode 
>>> for formulas. It is parsed by the Grammar module at:
>>>   
>>> https://github.com/david-a-wheeler/metamath-knife/blob/071292ef3a10350d0dae9e409b4921f91a08ce95/src/grammar.rs#L417-L433
>>>
>>> The "unambiguous" command is used to signal that grammatical parsing is 
>>> possible at all. The 'klr 5' indicates more specifically that a KLR parser 
>>> table can be built, which is one way to verify that the grammar is in fact 
>>> unambiguous, but for most purposes it suffices just to know the mere fact 
>>> of unambiguity (which is in general undecidable), and even then most tools 
>>> that attempt grammatical parsing ignore the directive and simply fail or 
>>> produce odd results on ambiguous grammars. Metamath-knife ignores this 
>>> command.
>>>
>>> Mario
>>>
>>> 在2022年11月12日星期六 UTC+1 21:05:54<[email protected]> 写道:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 1:44 PM Zheng Fan <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> if I want to add some new functions, is it better to add it to the 
>>>>>> relevant file or create a new file?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That depends on the function. Usually a function would go in the file 
>>>>> which defines the type on which the function is exposed, unless it is 
>>>>> really big in which case you might consider separate files. Rust source 
>>>>> files tend to be fairly large, they are only broken up by topic and there 
>>>>> aren't any strict file limits.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, do we assume the syntax of set.mm in the source code, e.g., wff 
>>>>>> precedes a formula, |- precedes a theorem,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> These "conventions" are encoded in $j comments, so I would prefer to 
>>>>> make use of that information when possible rather than hard coding them 
>>>>> in 
>>>>> the tool.
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>> and the label of a definition begins with "df-"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This one is only used in linter-like behavior, but I believe it is 
>>>>> hard-coded. A lot of "verify markup"'s behavior is hard coded to 
>>>>> maintenance of set.mm specifically.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mario
>>>>>
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