-- Core and Haskell (it uses HsTools for this), but only the functions that
-- know about various libraries and know which functions to call.
module CoreTools where
-
+
+--Standard modules
+import qualified Maybe
+
-- GHC API
import qualified GHC
import qualified Type
-- Treat Type arguments differently, because exprType is not defined for them.
is_fun (CoreSyn.Type _) = False
is_fun expr = (Type.isFunTy . CoreUtils.exprType) expr
+
+-- Is the given core expression polymorphic (i.e., does it accept type
+-- arguments?).
+is_poly :: CoreSyn.CoreExpr -> Bool
+-- Treat Type arguments differently, because exprType is not defined for them.
+is_poly (CoreSyn.Type _) = False
+is_poly expr = (Maybe.isJust . Type.splitForAllTy_maybe . CoreUtils.exprType) expr
+
+-- Is the given core expression a variable reference?
+is_var :: CoreSyn.CoreExpr -> Bool
+is_var (CoreSyn.Var _) = True
+is_var _ = False
+