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

       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.