ocaml/stdlib/oo.mli

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(*                           Objective Caml                            *)
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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.         *)
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(* $Id$ *)

(** Object-oriented extension *)

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]  *)
        

(**/**)

(** {2 For system use only, not for the casual user} *)

(** {2 Methods} *)

type label
val new_method : string -> label

(** {2 Classes} *)

type table
type meth
type t
type obj
val new_variable : table -> string -> int
val get_variable : table -> string -> int
val get_method_label : table -> string -> label
val get_method : table -> label -> meth
val set_method : table -> label -> meth -> unit
val narrow : table -> string list -> string list -> string list -> unit
val widen : table -> unit
val add_initializer : table -> (obj -> unit) -> unit
val create_table : string list -> table
val init_class : table -> unit

(** {2 Objects} *)

val create_object : table -> obj
val run_initializers : obj -> table -> unit
val send : obj -> label -> t

(** {2 Parameters} *)

type params =
  { mutable compact_table : bool;
    mutable copy_parent : bool;
    mutable clean_when_copying : bool;
    mutable retry_count : int;
    mutable bucket_small_size : int }

val params : params

(** {2 Statistics} *)

type stats =
  { classes : int; 
    labels : int; 
    methods : int; 
    inst_vars : int; 
    buckets : int;
    distrib : int array; 
    small_bucket_count : int; 
    small_bucket_max : int }
val stats : unit -> stats
val show_buckets : unit -> unit