ocaml/typing/subst.mli

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OCaml

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(* *)
(* Objective Caml *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
(* *)
(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *)
(* *)
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(* $Id$ *)
(* Substitutions *)
open Types
type t
(*
Substitutions are used to translate a type from one context to
another. This requires substituing paths for identifiers, and
possibly also lowering the level of non-generic variables so that
it be inferior to the maximum level of the new context.
Substitutions can also be used to create a "clean" copy of a type.
Indeed, non-variable node of a type are duplicated, with their
levels set to generic level. That way, the resulting type is
well-formed (decreasing levels), even if the original one was not.
*)
val identity: t
val add_type: Ident.t -> Path.t -> t -> t
val add_module: Ident.t -> Path.t -> t -> t
val add_modtype: Ident.t -> module_type -> t -> t
val type_expr: t -> type_expr -> type_expr
val value_description: t -> value_description -> value_description
val type_declaration: t -> type_declaration -> type_declaration
val exception_declaration:
t -> exception_declaration -> exception_declaration
val class_type: t -> class_type -> class_type
val modtype: t -> module_type -> module_type
val signature: t -> signature -> signature
val modtype_declaration: t -> modtype_declaration -> modtype_declaration