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This module offers a concrete data type 'a enum
of enumerations of elements of type 'a
. Suppose that every element of type 'a
is implicitly assigned a certain size. Then, an enumeration is a function of an integer s
to the (implicit, finite) sequence of all elements whose size is s
.
include FeatCore.EnumSig.ENUM with module IFSeq = IFSeq
module IFSeq = IFSeq
This implementation of implicit finite sequences is used as a building block in the definition of the type enum
, which follows.
type 'a enum = int -> 'a IFSeq.seq
An enumeration of type 'a enum
can be loosely thought of as a set of values of type 'a
, equipped with a notion of size. More precisely, it is a function of a size s
to a subset of inhabitants of size s
, presented as a sequence.
We expose the fact that enumerations are functions, instead of making enum
an abstract type, because this allows the user to make recursive definitions. It is up to the user to ensure that recursion is well-founded; as a rule of thumb, every recursive call must appear under pay
. It is also up to the user to take precautions so that these functions have constant time complexity (beyond the cost of an initialization phase). This is typically achieved by using a memoizing fixed point combinator instead of an ordinary recursive definition.
val empty : 'a enum
empty
is the empty enumeration.
val zero : 'a enum
zero
is a synonym for empty
.
val just : 'a -> 'a enum
The enumeration just x
contains just the element x
, with size zero. just x
is equivalent to finite [x]
.
The enumeration enum x
contains the elements in the sequence xs
, with size zero.
The enumeration pay e
contains the same elements as e
, with a size that is increased by one with respect to e
.
sum e1 e2
is the union of the enumerations e1
and e2
. It is up to the user to ensure that the sets e1
and e2
are disjoint.
exists xs e
is the union of all enumerations of the form e x
, where x
is drawn from the list xs
. (This is an indexed sum.) It is up to the user to ensure that the sets e1
and e2
are disjoint.
product e1 e2
is the Cartesian product of the enumerations e1
and e2
.
balanced_product e1 e2
is a subset of the Cartesian product product e1
e2
where the sizes of the left-hand and right-hand pair components must differ by at most one.
map phi e
is the image of the enumeration e
through the function phi
. It is up to the user to ensure that phi
is injective.
val finite : 'a list -> 'a enum
The enumeration finite xs
contains the elements in the list xs
, with size zero.
val bool : bool enum
bool
is equivalent to finite [false; true]
.
If elem
is an enumeration of the type 'a
, then list elem
is an enumeration of the type 'a list
. It is worth noting that every call to list elem
produces a fresh memoizing function, so (if possible) one should avoid applying list
twice to the same argument; that would be a waste of time and space.
Suppose we wish to enumerate lists of elements, where the validity of an element depends on which elements have appeared earlier in the list. For instance, we might wish to enumerate lists of instructions, where the set of permitted instructions at some point depends on the environment at this point, and each instruction produces an updated environment. If fix
is a suitable fixed point combinator and if the function elem
describes how elements depend on environments and how elements affect environments, then dlist fix elem
is such an enumeration. Each list node is considered to have size 1. Because the function elem
produces a list (as opposed to an enumeration), an element does not have a size.
The fixed point combinator fix
is typically of the form curried fix
, where fix
is a fixed point combinator for keys of type 'env * int
. Memoization takes place at keys that are pairs of an environment and a size.
The function elem
receives an environment and must return a list of pairs of an element and an updated environment.
sample m e i j k
is a sequence of at most m
elements of every size comprised between i
(included) and j
(excluded) extracted out of the enumeration e
, prepended in front of the existing sequence k
. At every size, if there are at most m
elements of this size, then all elements of this size are produced; otherwise, a random sample of m
elements of this size is produced.