(***********************************************************************) (* *) (* Objective Caml *) (* *) (* Xavier Leroy, projet Cristal, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *) (* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *) (* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, with *) (* the special exception on linking described in file ../LICENSE. *) (* *) (***********************************************************************) (* $Id: map.mli,v 1.33 2005/10/25 18:34:07 doligez Exp $ *) (** Association tables over ordered types. This module implements applicative association tables, also known as finite maps or dictionaries, given a total ordering function over the keys. All operations over maps are purely applicative (no side-effects). The implementation uses balanced binary trees, and therefore searching and insertion take time logarithmic in the size of the map. *) module type OrderedType = sig type t (** The type of the map keys. *) val compare : t -> t -> int (** A total ordering function over the keys. This is a two-argument function [f] such that [f e1 e2] is zero if the keys [e1] and [e2] are equal, [f e1 e2] is strictly negative if [e1] is smaller than [e2], and [f e1 e2] is strictly positive if [e1] is greater than [e2]. Example: a suitable ordering function is the generic structural comparison function {!Pervasives.compare}. *) end (** Input signature of the functor {!Map.Make}. *) module type S = sig type key (** The type of the map keys. *) type (+'a) t (** The type of maps from type [key] to type ['a]. *) val empty: 'a t (** The empty map. *) val is_empty: 'a t -> bool (** Test whether a map is empty or not. *) val add: key -> 'a -> 'a t -> 'a t (** [add x y m] returns a map containing the same bindings as [m], plus a binding of [x] to [y]. If [x] was already bound in [m], its previous binding disappears. *) val find: key -> 'a t -> 'a (** [find x m] returns the current binding of [x] in [m], or raises [Not_found] if no such binding exists. *) val remove: key -> 'a t -> 'a t (** [remove x m] returns a map containing the same bindings as [m], except for [x] which is unbound in the returned map. *) val mem: key -> 'a t -> bool (** [mem x m] returns [true] if [m] contains a binding for [x], and [false] otherwise. *) val iter: (key -> 'a -> unit) -> 'a t -> unit (** [iter f m] applies [f] to all bindings in map [m]. [f] receives the key as first argument, and the associated value as second argument. The bindings are passed to [f] in increasing order with respect to the ordering over the type of the keys. Only current bindings are presented to [f]: bindings hidden by more recent bindings are not passed to [f]. *) val map: ('a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t (** [map f m] returns a map with same domain as [m], where the associated value [a] of all bindings of [m] has been replaced by the result of the application of [f] to [a]. The bindings are passed to [f] in increasing order with respect to the ordering over the type of the keys. *) val mapi: (key -> 'a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t (** Same as {!Map.S.map}, but the function receives as arguments both the key and the associated value for each binding of the map. *) val fold: (key -> 'a -> 'b -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b -> 'b (** [fold f m a] computes [(f kN dN ... (f k1 d1 a)...)], where [k1 ... kN] are the keys of all bindings in [m] (in increasing order), and [d1 ... dN] are the associated data. *) val compare: ('a -> 'a -> int) -> 'a t -> 'a t -> int (** Total ordering between maps. The first argument is a total ordering used to compare data associated with equal keys in the two maps. *) val equal: ('a -> 'a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t -> bool (** [equal cmp m1 m2] tests whether the maps [m1] and [m2] are equal, that is, contain equal keys and associate them with equal data. [cmp] is the equality predicate used to compare the data associated with the keys. *) end (** Output signature of the functor {!Map.Make}. *) module Make (Ord : OrderedType) : S with type key = Ord.t (** Functor building an implementation of the map structure given a totally ordered type. *)