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(* <O___,, *        INRIA-Rocquencourt  &  LRI-CNRS-Orsay              *)
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(*** This module implements an "untyped store", in this particular case we
        see it as an extensible record whose fields are left unspecified. ***)

(* We give a short implementation of a universal type. This is mostly equivalent
    to what is proposed by module Dyn.ml, except that it requires no explicit tag. *)
module type Universal = sig
  type t
  
  type 'a etype = {
     put : 'a -> t ;
     get : t -> 'a option
  }

  val embed : unit -> 'a etype
end

(* We use a dynamic "name" allocator. But if we needed to serialise stores, we
might want something static to avoid troubles with plugins order. *)

let next =
  let count = ref 0 in fun () ->
  let n = !count in
  incr count;
  n

type t = Obj.t Util.Intmap.t

module Field = struct
  type 'a field = {
    set : 'a -> t -> t ;
    get : t -> 'a option ;
    remove : t -> t 
  }
  type 'a t = 'a field
end

open Field

let empty = Util.Intmap.empty

let field () =
  let fid = next () in
  let set a s =
    Util.Intmap.add fid (Obj.repr a) s
  in
  let get s =
    try Some (Obj.obj (Util.Intmap.find fid s))
    with _ -> None
  in
  let remove s =
    Util.Intmap.remove fid s
  in
  { set = set ; get = get ; remove = remove }
