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(************************************************************************)
(*  v      *   The Coq Proof Assistant  /  The Coq Development Team     *)
(* <O___,, * CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique-INRIA Futurs-Universite Paris Sud *)
(*   \VV/  **************************************************************)
(*    //   *      This file is distributed under the terms of the       *)
(*         *       GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1        *)
(************************************************************************)

(* $Id: option.mli 11576 2008-11-10 19:13:15Z msozeau $ *)

(** Module implementing basic combinators for OCaml option type.
   It tries follow closely the style of OCaml standard library.

   Actually, some operations have the same name as [List] ones:
   they actually are similar considering ['a option] as a type
   of lists with at most one element. *)

(** [has_some x] is [true] if [x] is of the form [Some y] and [false]
    otherwise.  *)
val has_some : 'a option -> bool
  
exception IsNone

(** [get x] returns [y] where [x] is [Some y]. It raises IsNone
    if [x] equals [None]. *)
val get : 'a option -> 'a

(** [make x] returns [Some x]. *)
val make : 'a -> 'a option

(** [init b x] returns [Some x] if [b] is [true] and [None] otherwise. *)
val init : bool -> 'a -> 'a option

(** [flatten x] is [Some y] if [x] is [Some (Some y)] and [None] otherwise. *)
val flatten : 'a option option -> 'a option


(** {6 "Iterators"} ***)

(** [iter f x] executes [f y] if [x] equals [Some y]. It does nothing 
    otherwise. *)
val iter : ('a -> unit) -> 'a option -> unit

exception Heterogeneous

(** [iter2 f x y] executes [f z w] if [x] equals [Some z] and [y] equals
    [Some w]. It does nothing if both [x] and [y] are [None]. And raises
    [Heterogeneous] otherwise. *)
val iter2 : ('a -> 'b -> unit) -> 'a option -> 'b option -> unit

(** [map f x] is [None] if [x] is [None] and [Some (f y)] if [x] is [Some y]. *)
val map : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a option -> 'b option

(** [smartmap f x] does the same as [map f x] except that it tries to share
    some memory. *)
val smartmap : ('a -> 'a) -> 'a option -> 'a option

(** [fold_left f a x] is [f a y] if [x] is [Some y], and [a] otherwise. *)
val fold_left : ('b -> 'a -> 'b) -> 'b -> 'a option -> 'b

(** [fold_left2 f a x y] is [f z w] if [x] is [Some z] and [y] is [Some w].
    It is [a] if both [x] and [y] are [None]. Otherwise it raises
    [Heterogeneous]. *)
val fold_left2 : ('a -> 'b -> 'c -> 'a) -> 'a -> 'b option -> 'c option -> 'a

(** [fold_right f x a] is [f y a] if [x] is [Some y], and [a] otherwise. *)
val fold_right : ('a -> 'b -> 'b) -> 'a option -> 'b -> 'b

(** [cata e f x] is [e] if [x] is [None] and [f a] if [x] is [Some a] *)
val cata : ('a -> 'b) -> 'b -> 'a option -> 'b

(** {6 More Specific Operations} ***)

(** [default a x] is [y] if [x] is [Some y] and [a] otherwise. *)
val default : 'a -> 'a option -> 'a

(** [lift] is the same as {!map}. *)
val lift : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a option -> 'b option

(** [lift_right f a x] is [Some (f a y)] if [x] is [Some y], and 
    [None] otherwise. *)
val lift_right : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> 'a -> 'b option -> 'c option

(** [lift_left f x a] is [Some (f y a)] if [x] is [Some y], and 
    [None] otherwise. *)
val lift_left : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> 'a option -> 'b -> 'c option

(** [lift2 f x y] is [Some (f z w)] if [x] equals [Some z] and [y] equals 
    [Some w]. It is [None] otherwise. *)
val lift2 : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> 'a option -> 'b option -> 'c option


(** {6 Operations with Lists} *)

module List : sig
  (** [List.cons x l] equals [y::l] if [x] is [Some y] and [l] otherwise. *)
  val cons : 'a option -> 'a list -> 'a list

  (** [List.flatten l] is the list of all the [y]s such that [l] contains
      [Some y] (in the same order). *)
  val flatten : 'a option list -> 'a list
end


(** {6 Miscelaneous Primitives} *)

module Misc : sig
  (** [Misc.compare f x y] lifts the equality predicate [f] to 
      option types. That is, if both [x] and [y] are [None] then 
      it returns [true], if they are bothe [Some _] then
      [f] is called. Otherwise it returns [false]. *)
   val compare : ('a -> 'a -> bool) -> 'a option -> 'a option -> bool
end