ocaml/stdlib/hashtbl.mli

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(* Caml Special Light *)
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(* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *)
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(* Copyright 1995 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *)
(* Automatique. Distributed only by permission. *)
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(* $Id$ *)
(* Module [Hashtbl]: hash tables and hash functions *)
(* Hash tables are hashed association tables, with in-place modification. *)
type ('a, 'b) t
(* The type of hash tables from type ['a] to type ['b]. *)
val new : int -> ('a,'b) t
(* [Hashtbl.new n] creates a new, empty hash table,
with initial size [n].
The table grows as needed, so [n] is just an initial guess.
Better results are said to be achieved when [n] is a prime
number. *)
val clear : ('a, 'b) t -> unit
(* Empty a hash table. *)
val add : ('a, 'b) t -> 'a -> 'b -> unit
(* [Hashtbl.add tbl x y] adds a binding of [x] to [y] in table [tbl].
Previous bindings for [x] are not removed, but simply
hidden. That is, after performing [remove tbl x], the previous
binding for [x], if any, is restored.
(This is the semantics of association lists.) *)
val find : ('a, 'b) t -> 'a -> 'b
(* [Hashtbl.find tbl x] returns the current binding of [x] in [tbl],
or raises [Not_found] if no such binding exists. *)
val find_all : ('a, 'b) t -> 'a -> 'b list
(* [Hashtbl.find_all tbl x] returns the list of all data
associated with [x] in [tbl].
The current binding is returned first, then the previous
bindings, in reverse order of introduction in the table. *)
val remove : ('a, 'b) t -> 'a -> unit
(* [Hashtbl.remove tbl x] removes the current binding of [x] in [tbl],
restoring the previous binding if it exists.
It does nothing if [x] is not bound in [tbl]. *)
val iter : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> ('a, 'b) t -> unit
(* [Hashtbl.iter f tbl] applies [f] to all bindings in table [tbl],
discarding all the results.
[f] receives the key as first argument, and the associated val
as second argument. The order in which the bindings are passed to
[f] is unpredictable. Each binding is presented exactly once
to [f]. *)
(*** The polymorphic hash primitive *)
val hash : 'a -> int
(* [Hashtbl.hash x] associates a positive integer to any val of
any type. It is guaranteed that
if [x = y], then [hash x = hash y].
Moreover, [hash] always terminates, even on cyclic
structures. *)
external hash_param : int -> int -> 'a -> int = "hash_univ_param" "noalloc"
(* [Hashtbl.hash_param n m x] computes a hash val for [x], with the
same properties as for [hash]. The two extra parameters [n] and
[m] give more precise control over hashing. Hashing performs a
depth-first, right-to-left traversal of the structure [x], stopping
after [n] meaningful nodes were encountered, or [m] nodes,
meaningful or not, were encountered. Meaningful nodes are: integers;
floating-point numbers; strings; characters; booleans; and constant
constructors. Larger vals of [m] and [n] means that more
nodes are taken into account to compute the final hash
val, and therefore collisions are less likely to happen.
However, hashing takes longer. The parameters [m] and [n]
govern the tradeoff between accuracy and speed. *)