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The signature of a serial number type, c.f. RFC 1982.

Serial numbers are not technically totally ordered. Some comparisons of serial numbers at excessively large distances can raise Failure.

include Cf_relations.Std
type t

An abstract type.

val compare : t -> t -> int

Use compare a b to compare a and b, returning 0 if the two values have equal ordering, 1 if a precedes b and -1 if a succeeds b.

val equal : t -> t -> bool

Use equal a b to compare a and b, returning true if the two values are equivalent, otherwise false.

val zero : t

The disintiguished initial serial number.

val succ : t -> t

Annotation systems use succ n to make the successor of n.