ocaml/stdlib/oo.mli

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(*                                OCaml                                *)
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(*         Jerome Vouillon, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt         *)
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(*  Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et   *)
(*  en Automatique.  All rights reserved.  This file is distributed    *)
(*  under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, with    *)
(*  the special exception on linking described in file ../LICENSE.     *)
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(* $Id$ *)

(** Operations on objects *)

val copy : (< .. > as 'a) -> 'a
(** [Oo.copy o] returns a copy of object [o], that is a fresh
   object with the same methods and instance variables as [o]. *)

external id : < .. > -> int = "%field1"
(** Return an integer identifying this object, unique for
    the current execution of the program. The generic comparison
    and hashing functions are based on this integer. When an object
    is obtained by unmarshaling, the id is refreshed, and thus
    different from the original object. As a consequence, the internal
    invariants of data structures such as hash table or sets containing
    objects are broken after unmarshaling the data structures.
  *)

(**/**)
(** For internal use (CamlIDL) *)
val new_method : string -> CamlinternalOO.tag
val public_method_label : string -> CamlinternalOO.tag