(* copyright (c) 2014, Simon Cruanes, Gabriel Scherer all rights reserved. redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. *) (** {1 Dynamic Type Representation} *) type 'a ty = | Int: int ty | String: string ty | List: 'a ty -> 'a list ty | Pair: ('a ty * 'b ty) -> ('a * 'b) ty | Record: ('builder, 'r) record * 'builder -> 'r ty | Sum: 's sum_cps -> 's ty | Fix : ('a ty -> 'a ty) -> 'a ty and (_, _) record = | RecField : string * 'a ty * ('r -> 'a) * ('builder, 'r) record -> ('a -> 'builder, 'r) record | RecYield : ('r , 'r) record (* yeah, this is a bit hard to swallow: we need to quantify universally over the return type of the pattern-matching, and then existentially on the type of the partial matching function *) and 's sum_cps = { cases : 't . ('s, 't) sum_ex } and ('s, 't) sum_ex = Match : ('matcher, 't, 's) sum * 'matcher -> ('s, 't) sum_ex and (_, _, _) sum = | SumCase: string * 'a ty * ('a -> 's) * ('matcher, 't, 's) sum -> (('a -> 't) -> 'matcher, 't, 's) sum | SumYield : (('s -> 't), 't, 's) sum val record_fix : ('a ty -> ('b, 'a) record * 'b) -> 'a ty val sum_fix : ('a ty -> 'a sum_cps) -> 'a ty val identity : 'a ty -> 'a -> 'a val pp : Format.formatter -> _ ty -> unit (** {2 Tests} *) type my_record = { a: int; b: string list; } val my_record : my_record ty type my_sum = | A of int | B of string list val my_sum : my_sum ty type lambda = | Var of string | App of lambda * lambda | Lambda of string * lambda val lambda : lambda ty