Module CCSeq

Helpers for the standard Seq type

See oseq for a richer API.

type 'a iter = ('a -> unit) -> unit
type 'a gen = unit -> 'a option
type 'a equal = 'a -> 'a -> bool
type 'a ord = 'a -> 'a -> int
type 'a printer = Stdlib.Format.formatter -> 'a -> unit

Basics

type 'a t = unit -> 'a node

A sequence xs of type 'a t is a delayed list of elements of type 'a. Such a sequence is queried by performing a function application xs(). This function application returns a node, allowing the caller to determine whether the sequence is empty or nonempty, and in the latter case, to obtain its head and tail.

and +'a node =
  1. | Nil
  2. | Cons of 'a * 'a t

A node is either Nil, which means that the sequence is empty, or Cons (x, xs), which means that x is the first element of the sequence and that xs is the remainder of the sequence.

Consuming sequences

The functions in this section consume their argument, a sequence, either partially or completely:

Similarly, among the functions that consume two sequences, one can distinguish two groups:

The functions that consume two sequences can be applied to two sequences of distinct lengths: in that case, the excess elements in the longer sequence are ignored. (It may be the case that one excess element is demanded, even though this element is not used.)

None of the functions in this section is lazy. These functions are consumers: they force some computation to take place.

val is_empty : 'a t -> bool

is_empty xs determines whether the sequence xs is empty.

It is recommended that the sequence xs be persistent. Indeed, is_empty xs demands the head of the sequence xs, so, if xs is ephemeral, it may be the case that xs cannot be used any more after this call has taken place.

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val uncons : 'a t -> ('a * 'a t) option

If xs is empty, then uncons xs is None.

If xs is nonempty, then uncons xs is Some (x, ys) where x is the head of the sequence and ys its tail.

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val length : 'a t -> int

length xs is the length of the sequence xs.

The sequence xs must be finite.

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val iter : ('a -> unit) -> 'a t -> unit

iter f xs invokes f x successively for every element x of the sequence xs, from left to right.

It terminates only if the sequence xs is finite.

val iteri : (int -> 'a -> unit) -> 'a t -> unit

iteri f xs invokes f i x successively for every element x located at index i in the sequence xs.

It terminates only if the sequence xs is finite.

iteri f xs is equivalent to iter (fun (i, x) -> f i x) (zip (ints 0) xs).

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val fold_lefti : ('acc -> int -> 'a -> 'acc) -> 'acc -> 'a t -> 'acc

fold_lefti f _ xs invokes f _ i x successively for every element x located at index i of the sequence xs.

An accumulator of type 'b is threaded through the calls to f.

It terminates only if the sequence xs is finite.

fold_lefti f accu xs is equivalent to fold_left (fun accu (i, x) -> f accu i x) accu (zip (ints 0) xs).

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val for_all : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> bool

for_all p xs determines whether all elements x of the sequence xs satisfy p x.

The sequence xs must be finite.

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val exists : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> bool

exists xs p determines whether at least one element x of the sequence xs satisfies p x.

The sequence xs must be finite.

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val find : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a option

find p xs returns Some x, where x is the first element of the sequence xs that satisfies p x, if there is such an element.

It returns None if there is no such element.

The sequence xs must be finite.

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val find_index : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> int option

find_index p xs returns Some i, where i is the index of the first element of the sequence xs that satisfies p x, if there is such an element.

It returns None if there is no such element.

The sequence xs must be finite.

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val find_map : ('a -> 'b option) -> 'a t -> 'b option

find_map f xs returns Some y, where x is the first element of the sequence xs such that f x = Some _, if there is such an element, and where y is defined by f x = Some y.

It returns None if there is no such element.

The sequence xs must be finite.

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val find_mapi : (int -> 'a -> 'b option) -> 'a t -> 'b option

Same as find_map, but the predicate is applied to the index of the element as first argument (counting from 0), and the element itself as second argument.

The sequence xs must be finite.

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val iter2 : ('a -> 'b -> unit) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> unit

iter2 f xs ys invokes f x y successively for every pair (x, y) of elements drawn synchronously from the sequences xs and ys.

If the sequences xs and ys have different lengths, then iteration stops as soon as one sequence is exhausted; the excess elements in the other sequence are ignored.

Iteration terminates only if at least one of the sequences xs and ys is finite.

iter2 f xs ys is equivalent to iter (fun (x, y) -> f x y) (zip xs ys).

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val fold_left2 : ('acc -> 'a -> 'b -> 'acc) -> 'acc -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'acc

fold_left2 f _ xs ys invokes f _ x y successively for every pair (x, y) of elements drawn synchronously from the sequences xs and ys.

An accumulator of type 'a is threaded through the calls to f.

If the sequences xs and ys have different lengths, then iteration stops as soon as one sequence is exhausted; the excess elements in the other sequence are ignored.

Iteration terminates only if at least one of the sequences xs and ys is finite.

fold_left2 f accu xs ys is equivalent to fold_left (fun accu (x, y) -> f accu x y) (zip xs ys).

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val for_all2 : ('a -> 'b -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> bool

for_all2 p xs ys determines whether all pairs (x, y) of elements drawn synchronously from the sequences xs and ys satisfy p x y.

If the sequences xs and ys have different lengths, then iteration stops as soon as one sequence is exhausted; the excess elements in the other sequence are ignored. In particular, if xs or ys is empty, then for_all2 p xs ys is true. This is where for_all2 and equal differ: equal eq xs ys can be true only if xs and ys have the same length.

At least one of the sequences xs and ys must be finite.

for_all2 p xs ys is equivalent to for_all (fun b -> b) (map2 p xs ys).

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val exists2 : ('a -> 'b -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> bool

exists2 p xs ys determines whether some pair (x, y) of elements drawn synchronously from the sequences xs and ys satisfies p x y.

If the sequences xs and ys have different lengths, then iteration must stop as soon as one sequence is exhausted; the excess elements in the other sequence are ignored.

At least one of the sequences xs and ys must be finite.

exists2 p xs ys is equivalent to exists (fun b -> b) (map2 p xs ys).

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Constructing sequences

The functions in this section are lazy: that is, they return sequences whose elements are computed only when demanded.

val empty : 'a t

empty is the empty sequence. It has no elements. Its length is 0.

val return : 'a -> 'a t

return x is the sequence whose sole element is x. Its length is 1.

val cons : 'a -> 'a t -> 'a t

cons x xs is the sequence that begins with the element x, followed with the sequence xs.

Writing cons (f()) xs causes the function call f() to take place immediately. For this call to be delayed until the sequence is queried, one must instead write (fun () -> Cons(f(), xs)).

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val init : int -> (int -> 'a) -> 'a t

init n f is the sequence f 0; f 1; ...; f (n-1).

n must be nonnegative.

If desired, the infinite sequence f 0; f 1; ... can be defined as map f (ints 0).

  • raises Invalid_argument

    if n is negative.

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val unfold : ('b -> ('a * 'b) option) -> 'b -> 'a t

unfold constructs a sequence out of a step function and an initial state.

If f u is None then unfold f u is the empty sequence. If f u is Some (x, u') then unfold f u is the nonempty sequence cons x (unfold f u').

For example, unfold (function [] -> None | h :: t -> Some (h, t)) l is equivalent to List.to_seq l.

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val forever : (unit -> 'a) -> 'a t

forever f is an infinite sequence where every element is produced (on demand) by the function call f().

For instance, forever Random.bool is an infinite sequence of random bits.

forever f is equivalent to map f (repeat ()).

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val cycle : 'a t -> 'a t

cycle xs is the infinite sequence that consists of an infinite number of repetitions of the sequence xs.

If xs is an empty sequence, then cycle xs is empty as well.

Consuming (a prefix of) the sequence cycle xs once can cause the sequence xs to be consumed more than once. Therefore, xs must be persistent.

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val iterate : ('a -> 'a) -> 'a -> 'a t

iterate f x is the infinite sequence whose elements are x, f x, f (f x), and so on.

In other words, it is the orbit of the function f, starting at x.

  • since 4.14

Transforming sequences

The functions in this section are lazy: that is, they return sequences whose elements are computed only when demanded.

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

map f xs is the image of the sequence xs through the transformation f.

If xs is the sequence x0; x1; ... then map f xs is the sequence f x0; f x1; ....

val mapi : (int -> 'a -> 'b) -> 'a t -> 'b t

mapi is analogous to map, but applies the function f to an index and an element.

mapi f xs is equivalent to map2 f (ints 0) xs.

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val filter : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t

filter p xs is the sequence of the elements x of xs that satisfy p x.

In other words, filter p xs is the sequence xs, deprived of the elements x such that p x is false.

val filter_map : ('a -> 'b option) -> 'a t -> 'b t

filter_map f xs is the sequence of the elements y such that f x = Some y, where x ranges over xs.

filter_map f xs is equivalent to map Option.get (filter Option.is_some (map f xs)).

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

If xs is a sequence [x0; x1; x2; ...], then scan f a0 xs is a sequence of accumulators [a0; a1; a2; ...] where a1 is f a0 x0, a2 is f a1 x1, and so on.

Thus, scan f a0 xs is conceptually related to fold_left f a0 xs. However, instead of performing an eager iteration and immediately returning the final accumulator, it returns a sequence of accumulators.

For instance, scan (+) 0 transforms a sequence of integers into the sequence of its partial sums.

If xs has length n then scan f a0 xs has length n+1.

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val take : int -> 'a t -> 'a t

take n xs is the sequence of the first n elements of xs.

If xs has fewer than n elements, then take n xs is equivalent to xs.

n must be nonnegative.

  • raises Invalid_argument

    if n is negative.

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val drop : int -> 'a t -> 'a t

drop n xs is the sequence xs, deprived of its first n elements.

If xs has fewer than n elements, then drop n xs is empty.

n must be nonnegative.

drop is lazy: the first n+1 elements of the sequence xs are demanded only when the first element of drop n xs is demanded. For this reason, drop 1 xs is not equivalent to tail xs, which queries xs immediately.

  • raises Invalid_argument

    if n is negative.

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val take_while : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t

take_while p xs is the longest prefix of the sequence xs where every element x satisfies p x.

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val drop_while : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t

drop_while p xs is the sequence xs, deprived of the prefix take_while p xs.

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val group : ('a -> 'a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t t

Provided the function eq defines an equality on elements, group eq xs is the sequence of the maximal runs of adjacent duplicate elements of the sequence xs.

Every element of group eq xs is a nonempty sequence of equal elements.

The concatenation concat (group eq xs) is equal to xs.

Consuming group eq xs, and consuming the sequences that it contains, can cause xs to be consumed more than once. Therefore, xs must be persistent.

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exception Forced_twice

This exception is raised when a sequence returned by once (or a suffix of it) is queried more than once.

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val once : 'a t -> 'a t

The sequence once xs has the same elements as the sequence xs.

Regardless of whether xs is ephemeral or persistent, once xs is an ephemeral sequence: it can be queried at most once. If it (or a suffix of it) is queried more than once, then the exception Forced_twice is raised. This can be useful, while debugging or testing, to ensure that a sequence is consumed at most once.

  • raises Forced_twice

    if once xs, or a suffix of it, is queried more than once.

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val transpose : 'a t t -> 'a t t

If xss is a matrix (a sequence of rows), then transpose xss is the sequence of the columns of the matrix xss.

The rows of the matrix xss are not required to have the same length.

The matrix xss is not required to be finite (in either direction).

The matrix xss must be persistent.

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Combining sequences

val append : 'a t -> 'a t -> 'a t

append xs ys is the concatenation of the sequences xs and ys.

Its elements are the elements of xs, followed by the elements of ys.

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val concat : 'a t t -> 'a t

If xss is a sequence of sequences, then concat xss is its concatenation.

If xss is the sequence xs0; xs1; ... then concat xss is the sequence xs0 @ xs1 @ ....

  • since 4.13
val flat_map : ('a -> 'b t) -> 'a t -> 'b t

flat_map f xs is equivalent to concat (map f xs).

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

concat_map f xs is equivalent to concat (map f xs).

concat_map is an alias for flat_map.

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val zip : 'a t -> 'b t -> ('a * 'b) t

zip xs ys is the sequence of pairs (x, y) drawn synchronously from the sequences xs and ys.

If the sequences xs and ys have different lengths, then the sequence ends as soon as one sequence is exhausted; the excess elements in the other sequence are ignored.

zip xs ys is equivalent to map2 (fun a b -> (a, b)) xs ys.

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val map2 : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'c t

map2 f xs ys is the sequence of the elements f x y, where the pairs (x, y) are drawn synchronously from the sequences xs and ys.

If the sequences xs and ys have different lengths, then the sequence ends as soon as one sequence is exhausted; the excess elements in the other sequence are ignored.

map2 f xs ys is equivalent to map (fun (x, y) -> f x y) (zip xs ys).

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val interleave : 'a t -> 'a t -> 'a t

interleave xs ys is the sequence that begins with the first element of xs, continues with the first element of ys, and so on.

When one of the sequences xs and ys is exhausted, interleave xs ys continues with the rest of the other sequence.

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val sorted_merge : ('a -> 'a -> int) -> 'a t -> 'a t -> 'a t

If the sequences xs and ys are sorted according to the total preorder cmp, then sorted_merge cmp xs ys is the sorted sequence obtained by merging the sequences xs and ys.

For more details on comparison functions, see Array.sort.

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val product : 'a t -> 'b t -> ('a * 'b) t

product xs ys is the Cartesian product of the sequences xs and ys.

For every element x of xs and for every element y of ys, the pair (x, y) appears once as an element of product xs ys.

The order in which the pairs appear is unspecified.

The sequences xs and ys are not required to be finite.

The sequences xs and ys must be persistent.

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val map_product : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'c t

The sequence map_product f xs ys is the image through f of the Cartesian product of the sequences xs and ys.

For every element x of xs and for every element y of ys, the element f x y appears once as an element of map_product f xs ys.

The order in which these elements appear is unspecified.

The sequences xs and ys are not required to be finite.

The sequences xs and ys must be persistent.

map_product f xs ys is equivalent to map (fun (x, y) -> f x y) (product xs ys).

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Splitting a sequence into two sequences

val unzip : ('a * 'b) t -> 'a t * 'b t

unzip transforms a sequence of pairs into a pair of sequences.

unzip xs is equivalent to (map fst xs, map snd xs).

Querying either of the sequences returned by unzip xs causes xs to be queried. Therefore, querying both of them causes xs to be queried twice. Thus, xs must be persistent and cheap. If that is not the case, use unzip (memoize xs).

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val split : ('a * 'b) t -> 'a t * 'b t

split is an alias for unzip.

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val partition_map : ('a -> ('b, 'c) Stdlib.Either.t) -> 'a t -> 'b t * 'c t

partition_map f xs returns a pair of sequences (ys, zs), where:

  • ys is the sequence of the elements y such that f x = Left y, where x ranges over xs;
  • zs is the sequence of the elements z such that f x = Right z, where x ranges over xs.

partition_map f xs is equivalent to a pair of filter_map Either.find_left (map f xs) and filter_map Either.find_right (map f xs).

Querying either of the sequences returned by partition_map f xs causes xs to be queried. Therefore, querying both of them causes xs to be queried twice. Thus, xs must be persistent and cheap. If that is not the case, use partition_map f (memoize xs).

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val partition : ('a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t * 'a t

partition p xs returns a pair of the subsequence of the elements of xs that satisfy p and the subsequence of the elements of xs that do not satisfy p.

partition p xs is equivalent to filter p xs, filter (fun x -> not (p x)) xs.

Consuming both of the sequences returned by partition p xs causes xs to be consumed twice and causes the function f to be applied twice to each element of the list. Therefore, f should be pure and cheap. Furthermore, xs should be persistent and cheap. If that is not the case, use partition p (memoize xs).

  • since 4.14

Converting between sequences and dispensers

A dispenser is a representation of a sequence as a function of type unit -> 'a option. Every time this function is invoked, it returns the next element of the sequence. When there are no more elements, it returns None. A dispenser has mutable internal state, therefore is ephemeral: the sequence that it represents can be consumed at most once.

val of_dispenser : (unit -> 'a option) -> 'a t

of_dispenser it is the sequence of the elements produced by the dispenser it. It is an ephemeral sequence: it can be consumed at most once. If a persistent sequence is needed, use memoize (of_dispenser it).

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val to_dispenser : 'a t -> unit -> 'a option

to_dispenser xs is a fresh dispenser on the sequence xs.

This dispenser has mutable internal state, which is not protected by a lock; so, it must not be used by several threads concurrently.

  • since 4.14

Sequences of integers

val ints : int -> int t

ints i is the infinite sequence of the integers beginning at i and counting up.

  • since 4.14
val nil : 'a t
val singleton : 'a -> 'a t
val repeat : ?n:int -> 'a -> 'a t

repeat ~n x repeats x n times then stops. If n is omitted, then x is repeated forever.

val head : 'a t -> 'a option

Head of the list.

val head_exn : 'a t -> 'a

Unsafe version of head.

  • raises Not_found

    if the list is empty.

val tail : 'a t -> 'a t option

Tail of the list.

val tail_exn : 'a t -> 'a t

Unsafe version of tail.

  • raises Not_found

    if the list is empty.

val equal : 'a equal -> 'a t equal

Equality step by step. Eager.

val compare : 'a ord -> 'a t ord

Lexicographic comparison. Eager.

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

Fold on values.

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

Alias for fold

val foldi : ('a -> int -> 'b -> 'a) -> 'a -> 'b t -> 'a

fold_lefti f init xs applies f acc i x where acc is the result of the previous computation or init for the first one, i is the index in the sequence (starts at 0) and x is the element of the sequence.

  • since 3.10
val filteri : (int -> 'a -> bool) -> 'a t -> 'a t

Similar to filter but the predicate takes aditionally the index of the elements.

val fmap : ('a -> 'b option) -> 'a t -> 'b t

Alias of filter_map.

val product_with : ('a -> 'b -> 'c) -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'c t

Fair product of two (possibly infinite) lists into a new list. Lazy. The first parameter is used to combine each pair of elements.

val uniq : 'a equal -> 'a t -> 'a t

uniq eq l returns l but removes consecutive duplicates. Lazy. In other words, if several values that are equal follow one another, only the first of them is kept.

val flatten : 'a t t -> 'a t

Alias of concat

val range : int -> int -> int t
val (--) : int -> int -> int t

a -- b is the range of integers containing a and b (therefore, never empty).

val (--^) : int -> int -> int t

a --^ b is the integer range from a to b, where b is excluded.

Operations on two Collections

val fold2 : ('acc -> 'a -> 'b -> 'acc) -> 'acc -> 'a t -> 'b t -> 'acc

Alias for fold_left2.

val merge : 'a ord -> 'a t -> 'a t -> 'a t

Alias of sorted_merge.

val zip_i : 'a t -> (int * 'a) t

zip_i seq zips the index of each element with the element itself.

  • since 3.8

Misc

val sort : cmp:'a ord -> 'a t -> 'a t

Eager sort. Require the iterator to be finite. O(n ln(n)) time and space.

val sort_uniq : cmp:'a ord -> 'a t -> 'a t

Eager sort that removes duplicate values. Require the iterator to be finite. O(n ln(n)) time and space.

val memoize : 'a t -> 'a t

Avoid recomputations by caching intermediate results.

Fair Combinations

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

Fair version of flat_map.

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

Fair version of (<*>).

Implementations

val pure : 'a -> 'a t
val (>>=) : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b t) -> 'b t
val (>|=) : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b t
val (<*>) : ('a -> 'b) t -> 'a t -> 'b t
val (>>-) : 'a t -> ('a -> 'b t) -> 'b t

Infix version of fair_flat_map.

val (<.>) : ('a -> 'b) t -> 'a t -> 'b t

Infix version of fair_app.

Infix operators

module Infix : sig ... end
module type MONAD = sig ... end
module Traverse (M : MONAD) : sig ... end

Conversions

val of_list : 'a list -> 'a t
val to_list : 'a t -> 'a list

Gather all values into a list.

val of_array : 'a array -> 'a t

Iterate on the array.

val to_array : 'a t -> 'a array

Convert into array.

val to_rev_list : 'a t -> 'a list

Convert to a list, in reverse order. More efficient than to_list.

val to_iter : 'a t -> 'a iter
val to_gen : 'a t -> 'a gen
val of_gen : 'a gen -> 'a t

of_gen g consumes the generator and caches intermediate results.

val of_string : string -> char t

Iterate on characters.

  • since 3.7

IO

val pp : ?pp_start:unit printer -> ?pp_stop:unit printer -> ?pp_sep:unit printer -> 'a printer -> 'a t printer

pp ~pp_start ~pp_stop ~pp_sep pp_item ppf s formats the sequence s on ppf. Each element is formatted with pp_item, pp_start is called at the beginning, pp_stop is called at the end, pp_sep is called between each elements. By defaults pp_start and pp_stop does nothing and pp_sep defaults to (fun out -> Format.fprintf out ",@ ").