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(***********************************************************************)
(*  v      *   The Coq Proof Assistant  /  The Coq Development Team    *)
(* <O___,, *        INRIA-Rocquencourt  &  LRI-CNRS-Orsay              *)
(*   \VV/  *************************************************************)
(*    //   *      This file is distributed under the terms of the      *)
(*         *       GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1       *)
(***********************************************************************)

(*i $Id$ i*)

(*s Search strategies. *)

(*s A search problem implements the following signature [SearchProblem].
    [state] is the type of states of the search tree.
    [branching] is the branching function; if [branching s] returns an 
    empty list, then search from [s] is aborted; successors of [s] are
    recursively searched in the order they appear in the list.
    [success] determines whether a given state is a success. 

    [pp] is a pretty-printer for states used in debugging versions of the 
    search functions. *)

module type SearchProblem = sig

  type state

  val branching : state -> state list

  val success : state -> bool

  val pp : state -> unit

end

(*s Functor [Make] returns some search functions given a search problem.
    Search functions raise [Not_found] if no success is found. 
    States are always visited in the order they appear in the
    output of [branching] (whatever the search method is).
    Debugging versions of the search functions print the position of the
    visited state together with the state it-self (using [S.pp]). *)

module Make : functor(S : SearchProblem) -> sig

  val depth_first : S.state -> S.state
  val debug_depth_first : S.state -> S.state

  val breadth_first : S.state -> S.state
  val debug_breadth_first : S.state -> S.state

end