path.mli

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(*                                 OCaml                                  *)
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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.                                                    *)
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(*   All rights reserved.  This file is distributed under the terms of    *)
(*   the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the          *)
(*   special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE.          *)
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(* Access paths *)

type t =
    Pident of Ident.t
  | Pdot of t * string * int
  | Papply of t * t

val same: t -> t -> bool
val compare: t -> t -> int
val isfree: Ident.t -> t -> bool
val binding_time: t -> int
val flatten : t -> [ `Contains_apply | `Ok of Ident.t * string list ]

val nopos: int

val name: ?paren:(string -> bool) -> t -> string
    (* [paren] tells whether a path suffix needs parentheses *)
val head: t -> Ident.t

val heads: t -> Ident.t list

val last: t -> string

type typath =
  | Regular of t
  | Ext of t * string
  | LocalExt of Ident.t
  | Cstr of t * string

val constructor_typath: t -> typath
val is_constructor_typath: t -> bool