ocaml/typing/btype.mli

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OCaml

(***********************************************************************)
(* *)
(* Objective Caml *)
(* *)
(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
(* *)
(* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *)
(* *)
(***********************************************************************)
(* $Id$ *)
(* Basic operations on core types *)
open Types
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: unit -> type_expr
(* Return a fresh generic variable *)
val newmarkedvar: int -> type_expr
(* Return a fresh marked variable *)
val newmarkedgenvar: unit -> type_expr
(* Return a fresh marked generic variable *)
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. *)
(**** Utilities for type traversal ****)
val iter_type_expr: (type_expr -> unit) -> type_expr -> unit
(* Iteration on types *)
val save_desc: type_expr -> type_desc -> unit
(* Save a type description *)
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 unmark_type: type_expr -> unit
val unmark_type_decl: type_declaration -> 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 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 -> 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 *)