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+(* Copyright (C) 2000-2002, HELM Team.
+ * 
+ * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
+ * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
+ * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
+ * 
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+
+(* $Id: proofEngineHelpers.ml 7022 2006-11-15 19:47:41Z fguidi $ *)
+
+(* saturate_term newmeta metasenv context ty goal_arity                       *)
+(* Given a type [ty] (a backbone), it returns its suffix of length            *)
+(* [goal_arity] head and a new metasenv in which there is new a META for each *)
+(* hypothesis, a list of arguments for the new applications and the index of  *)
+(* the last new META introduced. The nth argument in the list of arguments is *)
+(* just the nth new META.                                                     *)
+val saturate_term:
+ ?delta: bool -> (* default true *)
+ int -> Cic.metasenv -> Cic.context -> Cic.term -> int ->
+  Cic.term * Cic.metasenv * Cic.term list * int