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+(* Copyright (C) 2004-2005, HELM Team.
+ *
+ * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
+ * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
+ * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
+ *
+ * HELM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * HELM 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 General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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+ *
+ * For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
+ * http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
+ *)
+
+exception Value_not_found of string
+
+type value =
+ | TermValue of CicNotationPt.term
+ | StringValue of string
+ | NumValue of string
+ | OptValue of value option
+ | ListValue of value list
+
+type value_type =
+ | TermType
+ | StringType
+ | NumType
+ | OptType of value_type
+ | ListType of value_type
+
+type declaration = string * value_type
+type binding = string * (value_type * value)
+type env_type = binding list
+
+ (** fills a term pattern instantiating variable magics *)
+val instantiate: env:env_type -> CicNotationPt.term -> CicNotationPt.term
+
+(** {2 Bindings mangling} *)
+
+val opt_binding_some: binding -> binding (* v -> Some v *)
+val opt_binding_none: binding -> binding (* v -> None *)
+
+val opt_binding_of_name: declaration -> binding (* None binding *)
+val list_binding_of_name: declaration -> binding (* [] binding *)
+
+val opt_declaration: declaration -> declaration (* t -> OptType t *)
+val list_declaration: declaration -> declaration (* t -> ListType t *)
+