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-rw-r--r--engine/evd.mli2
-rw-r--r--engine/namegen.ml14
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/engine/evd.mli b/engine/evd.mli
index 9055dcc86b..96e4b6acce 100644
--- a/engine/evd.mli
+++ b/engine/evd.mli
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ open Environ
(** {6 Evars} *)
type evar = existential_key
-(** Existential variables. TODO: Should be made opaque one day. *)
+(** Existential variables. *)
val string_of_existential : evar -> string
diff --git a/engine/namegen.ml b/engine/namegen.ml
index 1dd29e6eae..2e62b89011 100644
--- a/engine/namegen.ml
+++ b/engine/namegen.ml
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ let default_non_dependent_ident = Id.of_string default_non_dependent_string
let default_dependent_ident = Id.of_string "x"
+let default_generated_non_letter_string = "x"
+
(**********************************************************************)
(* Globality of identifiers *)
@@ -107,7 +109,17 @@ let head_name sigma c = (* Find the head constant of a constr if any *)
hdrec c
let lowercase_first_char id = (* First character of a constr *)
- Unicode.lowercase_first_char (Id.to_string id)
+ let s = Id.to_string id in
+ match Unicode.split_at_first_letter s with
+ | None ->
+ (* General case: nat -> n *)
+ Unicode.lowercase_first_char s
+ | Some (s,s') ->
+ if String.length s' = 0 then
+ (* No letter, e.g. __, or __'_, etc. *)
+ default_generated_non_letter_string
+ else
+ s ^ Unicode.lowercase_first_char s'
let sort_hdchar = function
| Prop(_) -> "P"