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 * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
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type 'a path_string_elem = 
  | Constant of 'a * int (* name, arity *)
  | Bound of int * int (* rel, arity *)
  | Variable (* arity is 0 *)
  | Proposition (* arity is 0 *) 
  | Datatype (* arity is 0 *) 
  | Dead (* arity is 0 *) 
;;  

type 'a path = ('a path_string_elem) list;;

module type Indexable = sig
  type input
  type constant_name
  val compare: 
    constant_name path_string_elem -> 
    constant_name path_string_elem -> int
  val string_of_path : constant_name path -> string
  val path_string_of : input -> constant_name path
end

module type DiscriminationTree  =
    sig

      type input 
      type data
      type dataset
      type constant_name
      type t

      val iter : t -> (constant_name path -> dataset -> unit) -> unit
      val fold : t -> (constant_name path -> dataset -> 'b -> 'b) -> 'b -> 'b

      val empty : t
      val index : t -> input -> data -> t
      val remove_index : t -> input -> data -> t
      val in_index : t -> input -> (data -> bool) -> bool
      val retrieve_generalizations : t -> input -> dataset
      val retrieve_unifiables : t -> input -> dataset
    end


module Make (I : Indexable) (A : Set.S) : DiscriminationTree 
with type constant_name = I.constant_name and type input = I.input
and type data = A.elt and type dataset = A.t