ocaml/typing/btype.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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(* Basic operations on core types *)
open Asttypes
open Types
(**** Sets, maps and hashtables of types ****)
module TypeSet : Set.S with type elt = type_expr
module TypeMap : Map.S with type key = type_expr
module TypeHash : Hashtbl.S with type key = type_expr
(**** Levels ****)
val generic_level: int
val newty2: int -> type_desc -> type_expr
(* Create a type *)
val newgenty: type_desc -> type_expr
(* Create a generic type *)
val newgenvar: ?name:string -> unit -> type_expr
(* Return a fresh generic variable *)
(* Use Tsubst instead
val newmarkedvar: int -> type_expr
(* Return a fresh marked variable *)
val newmarkedgenvar: unit -> type_expr
(* Return a fresh marked generic variable *)
*)
(**** Types ****)
val is_Tvar: type_expr -> bool
val is_Tunivar: type_expr -> bool
val dummy_method: label
val default_mty: module_type option -> module_type
val repr: type_expr -> type_expr
(* Return the canonical representative of a type. *)
val field_kind_repr: field_kind -> field_kind
(* Return the canonical representative of an object field
kind. *)
val commu_repr: commutable -> commutable
(* Return the canonical representative of a commutation lock *)
(**** polymorphic variants ****)
val row_repr: row_desc -> row_desc
(* Return the canonical representative of a row description *)
val row_field_repr: row_field -> row_field
val row_field: label -> row_desc -> row_field
(* Return the canonical representative of a row field *)
val row_more: row_desc -> type_expr
(* Return the extension variable of the row *)
val row_fixed: row_desc -> bool
(* Return whether the row should be treated as fixed or not *)
val static_row: row_desc -> bool
(* Return whether the row is static or not *)
val hash_variant: label -> int
(* Hash function for variant tags *)
val proxy: type_expr -> type_expr
(* Return the proxy representative of the type: either itself
or a row variable *)
(**** Utilities for private abbreviations with fixed rows ****)
val has_constr_row: type_expr -> bool
val is_row_name: string -> bool
val is_constr_row: type_expr -> bool
(**** Utilities for type traversal ****)
val iter_type_expr: (type_expr -> unit) -> type_expr -> unit
(* Iteration on types *)
val iter_row: (type_expr -> unit) -> row_desc -> unit
(* Iteration on types in a row *)
val iter_abbrev: (type_expr -> unit) -> abbrev_memo -> unit
(* Iteration on types in an abbreviation list *)
type type_iterators =
{ it_signature: type_iterators -> signature -> unit;
it_signature_item: type_iterators -> signature_item -> unit;
it_value_description: type_iterators -> value_description -> unit;
it_type_declaration: type_iterators -> type_declaration -> unit;
it_extension_constructor: type_iterators -> extension_constructor -> unit;
it_module_declaration: type_iterators -> module_declaration -> unit;
it_modtype_declaration: type_iterators -> modtype_declaration -> unit;
it_class_declaration: type_iterators -> class_declaration -> unit;
it_class_type_declaration: type_iterators -> class_type_declaration -> unit;
it_module_type: type_iterators -> module_type -> unit;
it_class_type: type_iterators -> class_type -> unit;
it_type_kind: type_iterators -> type_kind -> unit;
it_do_type_expr: type_iterators -> type_expr -> unit;
it_type_expr: type_iterators -> type_expr -> unit;
it_path: Path.t -> unit; }
val type_iterators: type_iterators
(* Iteration on arbitrary type information.
[it_type_expr] calls [mark_type_node] to avoid loops. *)
val unmark_iterators: type_iterators
(* Unmark any structure containing types. See [unmark_type] below. *)
val copy_type_desc:
?keep_names:bool -> (type_expr -> type_expr) -> type_desc -> type_desc
(* Copy on types *)
val copy_row:
(type_expr -> type_expr) ->
bool -> row_desc -> bool -> type_expr -> row_desc
val copy_kind: field_kind -> field_kind
val save_desc: type_expr -> type_desc -> unit
(* Save a type description *)
val dup_kind: field_kind option ref -> unit
(* Save a None field_kind, and make it point to a fresh Fvar *)
val cleanup_types: unit -> unit
(* Restore type descriptions *)
val lowest_level: int
(* Marked type: ty.level < lowest_level *)
val pivot_level: int
(* Type marking: ty.level <- pivot_level - ty.level *)
val mark_type: type_expr -> unit
(* Mark a type *)
val mark_type_node: type_expr -> unit
(* Mark a type node (but not its sons) *)
val mark_type_params: type_expr -> unit
(* Mark the sons of a type node *)
val unmark_type: type_expr -> unit
val unmark_type_decl: type_declaration -> unit
val unmark_extension_constructor: extension_constructor -> unit
val unmark_class_type: class_type -> unit
val unmark_class_signature: class_signature -> unit
(* Remove marks from a type *)
(**** Memorization of abbreviation expansion ****)
val find_expans: private_flag -> Path.t -> abbrev_memo -> type_expr option
(* Look up a memorized abbreviation *)
val cleanup_abbrev: unit -> unit
(* Flush the cache of abbreviation expansions.
When some types are saved (using [output_value]), this
function MUST be called just before. *)
val memorize_abbrev:
abbrev_memo ref ->
private_flag -> Path.t -> type_expr -> type_expr -> unit
(* Add an expansion in the cache *)
val forget_abbrev:
abbrev_memo ref -> Path.t -> unit
(* Remove an abbreviation from the cache *)
(**** Utilities for labels ****)
val is_optional : arg_label -> bool
val label_name : arg_label -> label
(* Returns the label name with first character '?' or '~' as appropriate. *)
val prefixed_label_name : arg_label -> label
val extract_label :
label -> (arg_label * 'a) list ->
arg_label * 'a * (arg_label * 'a) list * (arg_label * 'a) list
(* actual label, value, before list, after list *)
(**** Utilities for backtracking ****)
type snapshot
(* A snapshot for backtracking *)
val snapshot: unit -> snapshot
(* Make a snapshot for later backtracking. Costs nothing *)
val backtrack: snapshot -> unit
(* Backtrack to a given snapshot. Only possible if you have
not already backtracked to a previous snapshot.
Calls [cleanup_abbrev] internally *)
val undo_compress: snapshot -> unit
(* Backtrack only path compression. Only meaningful if you have
not already backtracked to a previous snapshot.
Does not call [cleanup_abbrev] *)
(* Functions to use when modifying a type (only Ctype?) *)
val link_type: type_expr -> type_expr -> unit
(* Set the desc field of [t1] to [Tlink t2], logging the old
value if there is an active snapshot *)
val set_level: type_expr -> int -> unit
val set_name:
(Path.t * type_expr list) option ref ->
(Path.t * type_expr list) option -> unit
val set_row_field: row_field option ref -> row_field -> unit
val set_univar: type_expr option ref -> type_expr -> unit
val set_kind: field_kind option ref -> field_kind -> unit
val set_commu: commutable ref -> commutable -> unit
val set_typeset: TypeSet.t ref -> TypeSet.t -> unit
(* Set references, logging the old value *)
val log_type: type_expr -> unit
(* Log the old value of a type, before modifying it by hand *)
(**** Forward declarations ****)
val print_raw: (Format.formatter -> type_expr -> unit) ref
val iter_type_expr_kind: (type_expr -> unit) -> (type_kind -> unit)
val iter_type_expr_cstr_args: (type_expr -> unit) ->
(constructor_arguments -> unit)
val map_type_expr_cstr_args: (type_expr -> type_expr) ->
(constructor_arguments -> constructor_arguments)