package bap-future

create () retuns a stream and a signal handler that is used to feed the stream. Every time a value is signaled, it will occur in the stream.

from f returns a stream that is generated from successive applications of a function f. A new value is produced by a stream, every time it is signaled with associated signal handler.

unfold ~init ~f a more general than from way of building a stream, that allows to pass state between consecutive invocations of the generator function. A new value is produced by a stream, every time it is signaled with an associated signal handler.

unfold_until ~init ~f returns (stream,signal,future) is the same as unfold, except that function f is called until it returns a None value. Once this happens, the future becomes determined.

unfold' ~init ~f is a batched version of the unfold function. A new value is produced by a stream, every time it is signaled with associated signal handler.

repeat x returns a stream xs and a signal s. Every time s is signaled stream xs will produce a value x

of_list xs returns a stream ss, a signal s and a future es. Stream will produce consequently elements of xs every time the signal s is sent. Once all elements are produced the future es will occur signifying the end of the underlying sequence. All consecutive signals from es are ignored.

of_array xs returns a stream ss, a signal s and a future es. Stream will produce consequently elements of xs every time the signal s is sent. Once all elements are produced the future es will occur signifying the end of the underlying sequence. All consecutive signals from es are ignored.

of_seq xs returns a stream ss, a signal s and a future es. Stream will produce consequently elements of xs every time the signal s is sent. Once all elements are produced the future es will occur signifying the end of the underlying sequence. All consecutive signals from es are ignored.

watch s f watches a stream s with a function f. A subscription identifier is passed to the function, so it can be used to unsubscribe from the stream directly from the function.

observe s f is like watch but a subscription identifier is not passed to the function f.

subscribe s f subscribe to a stream s with a function f. A subscription identifier is returned.

unsubscribe s id stop calling a function that was has a provided identifier id

wait xs a polite way to notify a producer to slow down. Note: producer is not required to obey.

has_subscribers s is true if someone is watching for the stream

on_subscribe s f will call a function f every time someone is subscribed to a stream s

on_unsubscribe s f will call a function f every time someone has canceled subscription to a stream s

on_wait s f will be called every time someone, watching a stream s, will call wait s to ask a producer to slow down.

s' = map' s ~f apply function f for each value of a stream s and push values from a resulting queue into the stream s'. Example:

let q,p = of_list ['a','b','c', '.']
let q' = map q ~f:(function
    | 'a'..'z' as c ->
      Queue.of_list Char.[uppercase c; lowercase c]
    | c -> Queue.singleton c

Will produce:

<A; a; B; b; C; c; .>

map ss ~f returns new stream, that is build by application of a function f to each element of the stream ss

filter_map s ~f for each value x in stream s, produce y if f x is Some y, otherwise ignore x

filter s f produce a stream that contains the elements of stream s, for which f evaluates to true.

either xs ys is a discriminated union of two streams.

merge xs ys f merges streams xs and ys using function f.

apply fs xs apply stream of functions fs to a stream of values xs, producing a stream of results.

parse ss ~init ~f parses stream ss and builds new stream ss'. Function f is applied to each consecutive element of the stream ss with a state s. If function f returns None,s', then no value is produced in the output state and state s' is passed to the next invocation of function f. If it returns Some x, s', then value x is produced by the output stream and state s' is passed to a consecutive invocation of f. If it state type 'b is an instance of a list type, then parse will be a push down automaton. With arbitrary type of state it is possible to build automatons that falls between PDA and Turing Machine (not including the latter).

foldw ss n ~init ~f performs a windowed fold of the stream. A function f is folded over n consecutive elements of ss, then the result is produced into the output stream, the window is shifted by stride (defaults to one) and function f applied to the next n elements. For example, if stream ss produced the following sequence of elements:

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

and windows length n is equal to 3, then the function f will be applied to a sequences:

[1,2,3], [2,3,4], [3,4,5], [4,5,6], [5,6,7], [6,7,8]

.

Example, a moving average filter implemented with foldw:

let moving_average ss n =
  Float.(foldw ss n ~init:zero ~f:(+) >>| fun s / of_int n)

frame ~clk s ~init ~f will gather elements of s into frames, where the start of the new frame is signaled by a stream clk. The function is very similar to foldw except, that the window is determined dynamically by a clk stream. This function is useful to build custom time scales.

The semantics of the function can be clarified with the following description: 1. Every time a stream s produces a value it is buffered 2. Every time a stream clk produces a value, a function f is folded over all buffered value, and the result is put into the output stream. The internal buffer is cleared afterwards.

Example -------

Consider the following timing diagram, where each row represents a stream, and columns represent time. Elements of the clk stream are depicted with a T symbol.

          clk:    T         T        T  T      T     T
           ss: 123 56 123 12  1234 4      1234  1

will be framed in the following way:

[123], [5612312], [12344], [], [1234], [1]

Note: since all streams should be serialized it is impossible, that two events occur at the same time. So at the same column of the timing diagram there can be only one event.

sample ~clk ss is semantically the same as frame ~clk ss >>| fst

hd s returns a future that will occur as soon, as stream s will produce a value. Note: if hd is called on a stream, that already produced some values, the returned future will still be fulfilled on the first value, that will be put into the stream after the future is created.

tl s ignores the next occurrence in the stream s

find xs f returns a future that will be fulfilled with a first value for which a function f is true.

find_map xs f returns a future that will be fulfilled by a result of a first invocation of f to an element of the stream, that evaluated to Some value

take xs n returns a future that will evaluate to n values of the stream xs that has occurred after the future was created.

nth xs n returns n'th element of the stream xs. The element is n'th with respect to the future f, if was n'th element of the stream after the creation of the stream.

upon e xs returns a future that will be fulfilled with a last value of a stream xs before an event e has occurred. If at the time when the event e occurs, the stream xs didn't produce any elements, then the future will not be fulfilled.

before e xs returns a list that contains elements of the stream xs that occurred before the event e

last_before e xs n returns a list of length up to n, that contains last elements of the stream xs that occurred before the event e