Allow "|_=>_" in "match" in patterns, no more forced enumeration of constructors

 For instance, consider this inductive type:

    Inductive Ind := A | B | C | D.

 For detecting "match" on this type, one was forced earlier to write code
 in Ltac using "match goal" and/or "context [...]" and long patterns such as:

    match _ with A => _ | B => _ | C => _ | D => _ end

 After this patch, this pattern can be shortened in many alternative ways:

    match _ with A => _ | _ => _ end
    match _ with B => _ | _ => _ end
    match _ in Ind with _ => _ end

 Indeed, if we want to detect a "match" of a given type, we can either
 leave at least one branch where a constructor is explicit, or use a "in"
 annotation.

 Now, we can also detect any "match" regardless of its type:

   match _ with _ => _ end

 Note : this will even detect "match" over empty inductive types.
 Compatibility should be preserved, since "match _ with end" will
 continue to correspond only to empty inductive types.

 Internally, the constr_pattern PCase has changed quite a lot, a few elements
 are now grouped into a case_info_pattern record, while branches are now
 lists of given sub-patterns.

 NB: writing "match" with missing last branches in a constr pattern was actually
 tolerated by Pattern.pattern_of_glob_constr earlier, since the number of
 constructor per inductive is unknown there. And this was triggering an uncaught
 exception in a array_fold_left_2 in Matching later. Oups. At least this patch
 fixes this issue...

 Btw: the code in Pattern.pattern_of_glob_constr was quadratic in the number
 of branch in a match pattern. I doubt this was really a problem, but having now
 linear code instead cannot harm ;-)

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/coq/trunk@14644 85f007b7-540e-0410-9357-904b9bb8a0f7

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/pretyping/detyping.mli b/pretyping/detyping.mli
index a423a471f..40e3d0f82 100644
--- a/pretyping/detyping.mli
+++ b/pretyping/detyping.mli
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ val synthetize_type : unit -> bool
 
 val it_destRLambda_or_LetIn_names : int -> glob_constr -> name list * glob_constr
 val simple_cases_matrix_of_branches :
-  inductive -> int list -> glob_constr list -> cases_clauses
+  inductive -> (int * int * glob_constr) list -> cases_clauses
 val return_type_of_predicate :
   inductive -> int -> int -> glob_constr -> predicate_pattern * glob_constr option