longident.ml

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(*                                 OCaml                                  *)
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(*             Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt           *)
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(*   Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     *)
(*     en Automatique.                                                    *)
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(*   All rights reserved.  This file is distributed under the terms of    *)
(*   the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1, with the          *)
(*   special exception on linking described in the file LICENSE.          *)
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type t =
    Lident of string
  | Ldot of t * string
  | Lapply of t * t

let rec flat accu = function
    Lident s -> s :: accu
  | Ldot(lid, s) -> flat (s :: accu) lid
  | Lapply(_, _) -> Misc.fatal_error "Longident.flat"

let flatten lid = flat [] lid

let last = function
    Lident s -> s
  | Ldot(_, s) -> s
  | Lapply(_, _) -> Misc.fatal_error "Longident.last"


let rec split_at_dots s pos =
  try
    let dot = String.index_from s pos '.' in
    String.sub s pos (dot - pos) :: split_at_dots s (dot + 1)
  with Not_found ->
    [String.sub s pos (String.length s - pos)]

let unflatten l =
  match l with
  | [] -> None
  | hd :: tl -> Some (List.fold_left (fun p s -> Ldot(p, s)) (Lident hd) tl)

let parse s =
  match unflatten (split_at_dots s 0) with
  | None -> Lident ""  (* should not happen, but don't put assert false
                          so as not to crash the toplevel (see Genprintval) *)
  | Some v -> v