1Longident(3)                     OCaml library                    Longident(3)
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NAME

6       Longident - Long identifiers, used in parsetree.
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Module

9       Module   Longident
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Documentation

12       Module Longident
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16       Long identifiers, used in parsetree.
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18       Warning: this module is unstable and part of Compiler_libs .
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20       To  print  a longident, see Pprintast.longident , using Format.asprintf
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27       type t =
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36       val flatten : t -> string list
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43       For a non-empty list l , unflatten l is Some lid where lid is the  long
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56       This  function  is  broken   on   identifiers   that   are   not   just
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60       If you want to generate long identifiers that are a list  of  dot-sepa‐
61       rated  identifiers,  the  function  Longident.unflatten  is  safer  and
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64       If you want to parse any identifier correctly, use the long-identifiers
65       functions  from the Parse module, in particular Parse.longident .  They
66       are available since OCaml 4.11, and also provide proper  input-location
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73OCamldoc                          2022-07-22                      Longident(3)