longident.mli

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(*             Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt           *)
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(*   Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et     *)
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(** Long identifiers, used in parsetree.

  {b Warning:} this module is unstable and part of
  {{!Compiler_libs}compiler-libs}.

  To print a longident, see {!Pprintast.longident}, using
    {!Format.asprintf} to convert to a string.

*)

type t =
    Lident of string
  | Ldot of t * string
  | Lapply of t * t

val flatten: t -> string list
val unflatten: string list -> t option
(** For a non-empty list [l], [unflatten l] is [Some lid] where [lid] is
    the long identifier created by concatenating the elements of [l]
    with [Ldot].
    [unflatten []] is [None].
*)

val last: t -> string
val parse: string -> t
[@@deprecated "this function may misparse its input,\n\
use \"Parse.longident\" or \"Longident.unflatten\""]
(**

   This function is broken on identifiers that are not just "Word.Word.word";
   for example, it returns incorrect results on infix operators
   and extended module paths.

   If you want to generate long identifiers that are a list of
   dot-separated identifiers, the function {!unflatten} is safer and faster.
   {!unflatten} is available since OCaml 4.06.0.

   If you want to parse any identifier correctly, use the long-identifiers
   functions from the {!Parse} module, in particular {!Parse.longident}.
   They are available since OCaml 4.11, and also provide proper
   input-location support.

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