ocaml/stdlib/set.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 GNU Library General Public License. *)
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(* $Id$ *)
(** Sets over ordered types.
This module implements the set data structure, given a total ordering
function over the set elements. All operations over sets
are purely applicative (no side-effects).
The implementation uses balanced binary trees, and is therefore
reasonably efficient: insertion and membership take time
logarithmic in the size of the set, for instance.
*)
(** The input signature of the functor {!Set.Make}.
[t] is the type of the set elements.
[compare] is a total ordering function over the set elements.
This is a two-argument function [f] such that
[f e1 e2] is zero if the elements [e1] and [e2] are equal,
[f e1 e2] is strictly negative if [e1] is smaller than [e2],
and [f e1 e2] is strictly positive if [e1] is greater than [e2].
Example: a suitable ordering function is
the generic structural comparison function {!Pervasives.compare}. *)
module type OrderedType =
sig
type t
val compare: t -> t -> int
end
module type S =
sig
(** The type of the set elements. *)
type elt
(** The type of sets. *)
type t
(** The empty set. *)
val empty: t
(** Test whether a set is empty or not. *)
val is_empty: t -> bool
(** [mem x s] tests whether [x] belongs to the set [s]. *)
val mem: elt -> t -> bool
(** [add x s] returns a set containing all elements of [s],
plus [x]. If [x] was already in [s], [s] is returned unchanged. *)
val add: elt -> t -> t
(** [singleton x] returns the one-element set containing only [x]. *)
val singleton: elt -> t
(** [remove x s] returns a set containing all elements of [s],
except [x]. If [x] was not in [s], [s] is returned unchanged. *)
val remove: elt -> t -> t
(** Set union. *)
val union: t -> t -> t
(** Set interseection. *)
val inter: t -> t -> t
(** Set difference. *)
val diff: t -> t -> t
(** Total ordering between sets. Can be used as the ordering function
for doing sets of sets. *)
val compare: t -> t -> int
(** [equal s1 s2] tests whether the sets [s1] and [s2] are
equal, that is, contain equal elements. *)
val equal: t -> t -> bool
(** [subset s1 s2] tests whether the set [s1] is a subset of
the set [s2]. *)
val subset: t -> t -> bool
(** [iter f s] applies [f] in turn to all elements of [s].
The order in which the elements of [s] are presented to [f]
is unspecified. *)
val iter: (elt -> unit) -> t -> unit
(** [fold f s a] computes [(f xN ... (f x2 (f x1 a))...)],
where [x1 ... xN] are the elements of [s].
The order in which elements of [s] are presented to [f] is
unspecified. *)
val fold: (elt -> 'a -> 'a) -> t -> 'a -> 'a
(** [for_all p s] checks if all elements of the set
satisfy the predicate [p]. *)
val for_all: (elt -> bool) -> t -> bool
(** [exists p s] checks if at least one element of
the set satisfies the predicate [p]. *)
val exists: (elt -> bool) -> t -> bool
(** [filter p s] returns the set of all elements in [s]
that satisfy predicate [p]. *)
val filter: (elt -> bool) -> t -> t
(** [partition p s] returns a pair of sets [(s1, s2)], where
[s1] is the set of all the elements of [s] that satisfy the
predicate [p], and [s2] is the set of all the elements of
[s] that do not satisfy [p]. *)
val partition: (elt -> bool) -> t -> t * t
(** Return the number of elements of a set. *)
val cardinal: t -> int
(** Return the list of all elements of the given set.
The returned list is sorted in increasing order with respect
to the ordering [Ord.compare], where [Ord] is the argument
given to {!Set.Make}. *)
val elements: t -> elt list
(** Return the smallest element of the given set
(with respect to the [Ord.compare] ordering), or raise
[Not_found] if the set is empty. *)
val min_elt: t -> elt
(** Same as {!Set.S.min_elt}, but returns the largest element of the
given set. *)
val max_elt: t -> elt
(** Return one element of the given set, or raise [Not_found] if
the set is empty. Which element is chosen is unspecified,
but equal elements will be chosen for equal sets. *)
val choose: t -> elt
end
(** Functor building an implementation of the set structure
given a totally ordered type. *)
module Make (Ord : OrderedType): (S with type elt = Ord.t)