ocaml/stdlib/map.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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(* $Id$ *)
(** Association tables over ordered types.
This module implements applicative association tables, also known as
finite maps or dictionaries, given a total ordering function
over the keys.
All operations over maps are purely applicative (no side-effects).
The implementation uses balanced binary trees, and therefore searching
and insertion take time logarithmic in the size of the map.
*)
module type OrderedType = sig type t val compare : t -> t -> int end
(** The input signature of the functor [Map.Make].
[t] is the type of the map keys.
[compare] is a total ordering function over the keys.
This is a two-argument function [f] such that
[f e1 e2] is zero if the keys [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 S =
sig
type key
type +'a t
val empty : 'a t
val add : key -> 'a -> 'a t -> 'a t
val find : key -> 'a t -> 'a
val remove : key -> 'a t -> 'a t
val mem : key -> 'a t -> bool
val iter : (key -> 'a -> unit) -> 'a t -> unit
val map : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t
val mapi : (key -> 'a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t
val fold : (key -> 'a -> 'b -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b -> 'b
end
module Make (Ord : OrderedType) : S with type key = Ord.t
(** Functor building an implementation of the map structure
given a totally ordered type. *)