ocaml/typing/parmatch.mli

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(* *)
(* OCaml *)
(* *)
(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
(* *)
(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* en Automatique. *)
(* *)
(* All rights reserved. This file is distributed under the terms of *)
(* the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the *)
(* special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE. *)
(* *)
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(** Detection of partial matches and unused match cases. *)
open Asttypes
open Typedtree
open Types
val const_compare : constant -> constant -> int
(** [const_compare c1 c2] compares the actual values represented by [c1] and
[c2], while simply using [Stdlib.compare] would compare the
representations.
cf. MPR#5758 *)
val le_pat : pattern -> pattern -> bool
(** [le_pat p q] means: forall V, V matches q implies V matches p *)
val le_pats : pattern list -> pattern list -> bool
(** [le_pats (p1 .. pm) (q1 .. qn)] means: forall i <= m, [le_pat pi qi] *)
(** Exported compatibility functor, abstracted over constructor equality *)
module Compat :
functor
(_ : sig
val equal :
Types.constructor_description ->
Types.constructor_description ->
bool
end) -> sig
val compat : pattern -> pattern -> bool
val compats : pattern list -> pattern list -> bool
end
exception Empty
val lub : pattern -> pattern -> pattern
(** [lub p q] is a pattern that matches all values matched by [p] and [q].
May raise [Empty], when [p] and [q] are not compatible. *)
val lubs : pattern list -> pattern list -> pattern list
(** [lubs [p1; ...; pn] [q1; ...; qk]], where [n < k], is
[[lub p1 q1; ...; lub pk qk]]. *)
val get_mins : ('a -> 'a -> bool) -> 'a list -> 'a list
(** Those two functions recombine one pattern and its arguments:
For instance:
(_,_)::p1::p2::rem -> (p1, p2)::rem
The second one will replace mutable arguments by '_'
*)
val set_args : pattern -> pattern list -> pattern list
val set_args_erase_mutable : pattern -> pattern list -> pattern list
val pat_of_constr : pattern -> constructor_description -> pattern
val complete_constrs :
constructor_description pattern_data ->
constructor_tag list ->
constructor_description list
(** [ppat_of_type] builds an untyped pattern from its expected type,
for explosion of wildcard patterns in Typecore.type_pat.
There are four interesting cases:
- the type is empty ([PT_empty])
- no further explosion is necessary ([PT_any])
- a single pattern is generated, from a record or tuple type
or a single-variant type ([PE_single])
- an or-pattern is generated, in the case that all branches
are GADT constructors ([PE_gadt_cases]).
*)
type pat_explosion = PE_single | PE_gadt_cases
type ppat_of_type =
| PT_empty
| PT_any
| PT_pattern of
pat_explosion *
Parsetree.pattern *
(string, constructor_description) Hashtbl.t *
(string, label_description) Hashtbl.t
val ppat_of_type: Env.t -> type_expr -> ppat_of_type
val pressure_variants:
Env.t -> pattern list -> unit
val pressure_variants_in_computation_pattern:
Env.t -> computation general_pattern list -> unit
(** [check_partial pred loc caselist] and [check_unused refute pred caselist]
are called with a function [pred] which will be given counter-example
candidates: they may be partially ill-typed, and have to be type-checked
to extract a valid counter-example.
[pred] returns a valid counter-example or [None].
[refute] indicates that [check_unused] was called on a refutation clause.
*)
val check_partial:
((string, constructor_description) Hashtbl.t ->
(string, label_description) Hashtbl.t ->
Parsetree.pattern -> pattern option) ->
Location.t -> value case list -> partial
val check_unused:
(bool ->
(string, constructor_description) Hashtbl.t ->
(string, label_description) Hashtbl.t ->
Parsetree.pattern -> pattern option) ->
value case list -> unit
(* Irrefutability tests *)
val irrefutable : pattern -> bool
(** An inactive pattern is a pattern, matching against which can be duplicated,
erased or delayed without change in observable behavior of the program.
Patterns containing (lazy _) subpatterns or reads of mutable fields are
active. *)
val inactive : partial:partial -> pattern -> bool
(* Ambiguous bindings *)
val check_ambiguous_bindings : value case list -> unit
(* The tag used for open polymorphic variant types with an abstract row *)
val some_private_tag : label