(*

 * Options - functions for the option type

 * Copyright (C) 2003 Nicolas Cannasse

 *

 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public

 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either

 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version,

 * with the special exception on linking described in file LICENSE.

 *

 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU

 * Lesser General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public

 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 *)

(** Functions for the option type.

    Options are an Ocaml standard type that can be either [None] (undefined)

  or [Some x] where x can be any value. Options are widely used in Ocaml

  to represent undefined values (a little like NULL in C, but in a type

  and memory safe way). This module adds some functions for working with

  options.

*)

val may : ('a -> unit) -> 'a option -> unit

(** [may f (Some x)] calls [f x] and [may f None] does nothing. *)

val map : ('a -> 'b) -> 'a option -> 'b option

(** [map f (Some x)] returns [Some (f x)] and [map None] returns [None]. *)

val default : 'a -> 'a option -> 'a

(** [default x (Some v)] returns [v] and [default x None] returns [x]. *)

val map_default : ('a -> 'b) -> 'b -> 'a option -> 'b

(** [map_default f x (Some v)] returns [f v] and [map_default f x None]

  returns [x]. *)

val is_none : 'a option -> bool

(** [is_none None] returns [true] otherwise it returns [false]. *)

val is_some : 'a option -> bool

(** [is_some (Some x)] returns [true] otherwise it returns [false]. *)

val get : 'a option -> 'a

(** [get (Some x)] returns [x] and [get None] raises [No_value]. *)

exception No_value

(** Raised when calling [get None]. *)