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NAME

       Stream - Streams and parsers.


Module

       Module   Stream


Documentation

       Module Stream
        : sig end


       Streams and parsers.





       type 'a t


       The type of streams holding values of type 'a .



       exception Failure


       Raised  by parsers when none of the first components of the stream pat-
       terns is accepted.



       exception Error of string


       Raised by parsers when the first  component  of  a  stream  pattern  is
       accepted, but one of the following components is rejected.





       === Stream builders ===



       val from : (int -> 'a option) -> 'a t


       Stream.from f returns a stream built from the function f .  To create a
       new stream element, the function f is called with  the  current  stream
       count.  The user function f must return either Some <value> for a value
       or None to specify the end of the stream.

       Do note that the indices passed to f may not start at 0 in the  general
       case.  For  example, [< '0; '1; Stream.from f >] would call f the first
       time with count 2 .



       val of_list : 'a list -> 'a t

       Return the stream holding the elements of the list in the same order.



       val of_string : string -> char t

       Return the stream of the characters of the string parameter.



       val of_bytes : bytes -> char t

       Return the stream of the characters of the bytes parameter.



       val of_channel : Pervasives.in_channel -> char t

       Return the stream of the characters read from the input channel.





       === Stream iterator ===



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


       Stream.iter f s scans the whole stream s, applying function f  in  turn
       to each stream element encountered.





       === Predefined parsers ===



       val next : 'a t -> 'a

       Return  the  first element of the stream and remove it from the stream.
       Raise Stream.Failure if the stream is empty.



       val empty : 'a t -> unit

       Return () if the stream is empty, else raise Stream.Failure .





       === Useful functions ===



       val peek : 'a t -> 'a option

       Return Some of "the first element" of the stream, or None if the stream
       is empty.



       val junk : 'a t -> unit

       Remove  the first element of the stream, possibly unfreezing it before.



       val count : 'a t -> int

       Return the current count of the stream elements, i.e. the number of the
       stream elements discarded.



       val npeek : int -> 'a t -> 'a list


       npeek  n returns the list of the n first elements of the stream, or all
       its remaining elements if less than n elements are available.





OCamldoc                          2014-10-18                         Stream(3)

ocaml 4.02.1 - Generated Tue Oct 21 06:30:22 CDT 2014
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