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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,
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+ *
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+ *
+ * For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
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+ *)
+
+exception AlreadyDefined of UriManager.uri
+
+type coercion_decl =
+ UriManager.uri -> int (* arity *) ->
+ int (* saturations *) -> string (* baseuri *) ->
+ UriManager.uri list (* lemmas (new objs) *)
+
+(* the add_single_obj fun passed to the callback can raise AlreadyDefined *)
+val add_object_declaration_hook :
+ (add_obj:(UriManager.uri -> Cic.obj -> UriManager.uri list) ->
+ add_coercion:coercion_decl ->
+ UriManager.uri -> Cic.obj -> UriManager.uri list) -> unit
+
+(* adds an object to the library together with all auxiliary lemmas on it *)
+(* (e.g. elimination principles, projections, etc.) *)
+(* it returns the list of the uris of the auxiliary lemmas generated *)
+val add_obj:
+ UriManager.uri -> Cic.obj -> pack_coercion_obj:(Cic.obj -> Cic.obj) ->
+ UriManager.uri list
+
+(* removes an object (does not remove its associated lemmas) *)
+val remove_obj: UriManager.uri -> unit
+
+(* Informs the library that [uri] is a coercion. *)
+(* This can generate some composite coercions that, if [add_composites] *)
+(* is true are added to the library. *)
+(* The list of added objects is returned. *)
+val add_coercion:
+ add_composites:bool -> pack_coercion_obj:(Cic.obj -> Cic.obj) -> coercion_decl
+
+(* these just push/pop the coercions database, since the library is not
+ * pushable/poppable *)
+val push: unit -> unit
+val pop: unit -> unit