Longident(3)                     OCaml library                    Longident(3)

NAME
       Longident - Long identifiers, used in parsetree.

Module
       Module   Longident

Documentation
       Module Longident
        : sig end


       Long identifiers, used in parsetree.

       Warning: this module is unstable and part of Compiler_libs .

       To print a longident, see Pprintast.longident , using Format.asprintf
       to convert to a string.





       type t =
        | Lident of string
        | Ldot of t * string
        | Lapply of t * t





       val flatten : t -> string list




       val unflatten : string list -> t option

       For a non-empty list l , unflatten l is Some lid where lid is the long
       identifier created by concatenating the elements of l with Ldot .
       unflatten [] is None .



       val last : t -> string




       val parse : string -> t

       Deprecated.  this function may misparse its input, use
       "Parse.longident" or "Longident.unflatten"


       This function is broken on identifiers that are not just
       "Word.Word.word"; for example, it returns incorrect results on infix
       operators and extended module paths.

       If you want to generate long identifiers that are a list of
       dot-separated identifiers, the function Longident.unflatten is safer
       and faster.  Longident.unflatten is available since OCaml 4.06.0.

       If you want to parse any identifier correctly, use the long-identifiers
       functions from the Parse module, in particular Parse.longident .  They
       are available since OCaml 4.11, and also provide proper input-location
       support.



OCamldoc                          2024-02-29                      Longident(3)