ocaml/typing/typedecl.mli

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(*                           Objective Caml                            *)
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(*            Xavier Leroy, 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 Q Public License version 1.0.               *)
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(* $Id$ *)

(* Typing of type definitions and primitive definitions *)

open Types
open Format

val transl_type_decl:
        Env.t -> (string * Parsetree.type_declaration) list ->
                                  (Ident.t * type_declaration) list * Env.t
val transl_exception:
        Env.t -> Parsetree.exception_declaration -> exception_declaration

val transl_exn_rebind:
        Env.t -> Location.t -> Longident.t -> Path.t * exception_declaration

val transl_value_decl:
        Env.t -> Parsetree.value_description -> value_description

val transl_with_constraint:
        Env.t -> Parsetree.type_declaration -> type_declaration

val abstract_type_decl: int -> type_declaration
val approx_type_decl:
        Env.t -> (string * Parsetree.type_declaration) list ->
                                  (Ident.t * type_declaration) list
val check_recmod_typedecl:
    Env.t -> Location.t -> Ident.t list -> Path.t -> type_declaration -> unit

(* for typeclass.ml *)
val compute_variance_decls:
    Env.t ->
    ((Ident.t * type_declaration) * ((bool * bool) list * Location.t)) list ->
    (Ident.t * type_declaration) list
    
type error =
    Repeated_parameter
  | Duplicate_constructor of string
  | Too_many_constructors
  | Duplicate_label of string
  | Recursive_abbrev of string
  | Definition_mismatch of type_expr
  | Constraint_failed of type_expr * type_expr
  | Unconsistent_constraint of (type_expr * type_expr) list
  | Type_clash of (type_expr * type_expr) list
  | Parameters_differ of Path.t * type_expr * type_expr
  | Null_arity_external
  | Missing_native_external
  | Unbound_type_var
  | Unbound_exception of Longident.t
  | Not_an_exception of Longident.t
  | Bad_variance
  | Unavailable_type_constructor of Path.t

exception Error of Location.t * error

val report_error: formatter -> error -> unit