(***********************************************************************) (* *) (* Caml Special Light *) (* *) (* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* Copyright 1995 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *) (* Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *) (* *) (***********************************************************************) (* $Id$ *) (* Typechecking of type expressions for the core language *) open Parsetree open Typedtree open Ctype exception Already_bound type error = Unbound_type_variable of string | Unbound_type_constructor of Longident.t | Type_arity_mismatch of Longident.t * int * int exception Error of Location.t * error (* Translation of type expressions *) let type_variables = ref (Tbl.empty : (string, type_expr) Tbl.t) let reset_type_variables () = type_variables := Tbl.empty let enter_type_variable name = try Tbl.find name !type_variables; raise Already_bound with Not_found -> let v = newvar() in type_variables := Tbl.add name v !type_variables; v let rec transl_simple_type env fixed styp = match styp.ptyp_desc with Ptyp_var name -> begin try Tbl.find name !type_variables with Not_found -> if fixed then raise(Error(styp.ptyp_loc, Unbound_type_variable name)) else begin let v = newvar() in type_variables := Tbl.add name v !type_variables; v end end | Ptyp_arrow(st1, st2) -> Tarrow(transl_simple_type env fixed st1, transl_simple_type env fixed st2) | Ptyp_tuple stl -> Ttuple(List.map (transl_simple_type env fixed) stl) | Ptyp_constr(lid, stl) -> let (path, decl) = try Env.lookup_type lid env with Not_found -> raise(Error(styp.ptyp_loc, Unbound_type_constructor lid)) in if List.length stl <> decl.type_arity then raise(Error(styp.ptyp_loc, Type_arity_mismatch(lid, decl.type_arity, List.length stl))); Tconstr(path, List.map (transl_simple_type env fixed) stl) let transl_type_scheme env styp = reset_type_variables(); begin_def(); let typ = transl_simple_type env false styp in end_def(); generalize typ; typ (* Error report *) open Format open Printtyp let report_error = function Unbound_type_variable name -> print_string "Unbound type parameter "; print_string name | Unbound_type_constructor lid -> print_string "Unbound type constructor "; longident lid | Type_arity_mismatch(lid, expected, provided) -> open_hovbox 0; print_string "The type constructor "; longident lid; print_space(); print_string "expects "; print_int expected; print_string " argument(s),"; print_space(); print_string "but is here applied to "; print_int provided; print_string " argument(s)"; close_box()