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-rw-r--r--pretyping/evarutil.mli4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pretyping/evarutil.mli b/pretyping/evarutil.mli
index 889b2c9bf..8e344860f 100644
--- a/pretyping/evarutil.mli
+++ b/pretyping/evarutil.mli
@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ val define_evar_as_product : evar_map -> existential -> evar_map * types
val define_evar_as_lambda : env -> evar_map -> existential -> evar_map * types
val define_evar_as_sort : evar_map -> existential -> evar_map * sorts
+(** Instantiate an evar by as many lambda's as needed so that its arguments
+ are moved to the evar substitution (i.e. turn [?x[vars1:=args1] args] into
+ [?y[vars1:=args1,vars:=args]] with
+ [vars1 |- ?x:=\vars.?y[vars1:=vars1,vars:=vars]] *)
val evar_absorb_arguments : env -> evar_map -> existential -> constr list ->
evar_map * existential