Parse Expressions

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parse(file="", n=null, text=null, prompt=null,
        white=false)

`file`	the name of a file to read the expressions from. If the `file` is `""` and `text` is missing or `null` then input is taken from the keyboard.
`n`	the number of statements to parse. If `n` is negative the file is parsed in its entirety. When parsing takes place from the keyboard, `n` is always 1.
`text`	text to parse, quoted.
`prompt`	the prompt to print when parseing from the keyboard
`white`	if true then any white space separates expressions otherwise only newlines or semicolons do.

parse returns the parsed but unevaluated expressions in a list. Each element of the list is of mode expression.

# parse 5 statements from the file "foo" parse(file="foo",n=5)