package gen

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Clonable Generators

Utils to save the internal state of a generator, and restart from this state. This will and should not work on any iterator, but for some of them (e.g. reading from a file, see IO) it makes a lot of sense.

  • since 0.2.3
type 'a gen = unit -> 'a option
type 'a t = < gen : 'a gen ; clone : 'a t >

A generator that can be cloned as many times as required.

type 'a clonable = 'a t

Alias to 'at

Prepend method

type 'a prependable = < gen : 'a gen ; clone : 'a prependable ; prepend : 'a -> unit >
val to_prependable : 'a t -> 'a prependable

Misc

val map : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t

Low-level Persistency

Example:

let g = 1 -- 1000 ;;
val g : int t = <fun>

let c = g |> MList.of_gen_lazy |> MList.to_clonable;;
val c : int clonable = <obj>

          c#next |> take 500 |> to_list;;
- : int list = [1; 2; 3; .....; 500]

let c' = c#clone ;;
val c' : int clonable = <obj>

           c |> to_list;;
- : int list = [501; 502; ....; 1000]

  c'#gen |> to_list;;   (* c consumed, but not c' *)
- : int list = [501; 502; ....; 1000]

  c#gen |> to_list;;
- : int list = []

IO

module IO : sig ... end